Congratulations to Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD, who has been chosen as the 2025 President-elect of the Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International Biometrics Society, one of the largest and most impactful professional statistics and biostatistics societies.
The society advances biological science through the development of quantitative theories and the application, development, and dissemination of effective mathematical and statistical techniques.
“ENAR is a society that I respect profoundly. I feel indebted to ENAR for my own professional growth and belonging. It is now my time to give back to ENAR,” Dr. Mukherjee said in a post on LinkedIn.
Dr. Mukherjee is Senior Associate Dean of Public Health Data Science and Data Equity, Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Biostatistics, and Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Statistics and Data Science.
The author of 497 publications with more than 15,000 citations, Dr. Mukherjee is globally recognized for her research contributions in integrating genetic, environmental and health outcome data.
The central theme in Dr. Mukherjee's research program has been to develop novel inferential methods for epidemiological data using Bayesian, frequentist and hybrid methods.
Dr. Mukherjee’s interest over the years has shifted to integration of diverse data sources and scalable biobank data analysis. This includes integration of genetic, environmental and phenomic data. She is interested in principled analysis of electronic health records and other administrative health care data sources that were not designed for population-based research. One of her research themes is understanding selection bias across these diverse, heterogeneous data sources.
Dr. Mukherjee has served as the Principal Investigator on methodology grants funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received numerous awards for her outstanding scholarship, service, and teaching. These include the Gertrude Cox award, the Adrienne Cupples Award, the Janet Norwood award, the Sarah Goddard Power award, the Karl E Peace Award, the Jerry Sacks Award, and the Marvin Zelen Statistical Leadership Award. In 2022, she was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine.