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Dr. Spiegelman's Symposium
Friday, October 3rd, 2025
A Symposium Celebrating Dr. Donna Spiegelman's Distinguished Career in Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Donna’s 70th Birthday Symposium was celebrated with such an inspiring group of speakers. The event brought together colleagues, collaborators, and friends who shared thoughtful reflections and engaging presentations that highlighted Donna’s remarkable impact on the field and the community she has built over the years.
The event featured experts in biostatistics and epidemiology, causal inference, implementation science, and measurement error methods. The day ended by cutting a cake for this legendary scholar’s 70th birthday!
This event was jointly hosted by the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH), Public Health Data Science and Data Equity (DSDE), and the Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS).
Speakers at the Scientific Conference
- Ashley Buchannan (University of Rhode Island)
- Francine Laden (Harvard University)
- Fan Li (Yale University)
- Judith Lok (Boston University)
- Melody Owen (Yale University)
- James Robins (Harvard University)
- Bernard Rosner (Harvard University)
- Archana Shrestha (Kathmandu University, Nepal)
- Wenze Tang (The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson)
- Sten Vermund (University of South Florida)
- Molin Wang (Harvard University)
- Grace Yi (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
- Xin Zhou (Yale University)
Planning Committee
- Bhramar Mukherjee (Yale University)
- Fan Li (Yale University)
- Ashley Buchannan (University of Rhode Island)
- Molin Wang (Harvard University)
- Judith Lok (Boston University)
- Teresa Chahine (Yale University)
Learn how Dr. Spiegelman life journey, personally and professionally, led her to her current achievements as a statistician, epidemiologist, and public health professional.