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Having never visited the U.S., Yaqing Xu was initially hesitant about entering the master’s degree program in the Yale School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics. But positive support from her professors and fellow students, along with exciting course material and research opportunities, confirmed she made the right choice. Xu stayed on at Yale to take advantage of the department’s stellar PhD program, adding to the department’s many stories of outstanding student success.

The Yale Center for Analytical Sciences is leading the way in collaborative science. In partnership with the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation and the Yale School of Public Health, the center combines existing academic strengths in biostatistics, epidemiology, health economics, health policy, health services, and big data research at Yale. Its primary mission is to collaborate with investigators on studies to improve health and advance the development of innovative analytical methods while educating and training the next generation of researchers and methodologists.

A grant will support the expansion of the NIH-DOD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory Coordinating Center directed by Robert D. Kerns, PhD, professor of psychiatry and of neurology and of psychology, and colleagues.

Yale School of Public Health and Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS) faculty member Fan Li, PhD, has been invited to serve on the editorial board for the journal Implementation Science. Dr. Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health and is the recipient of a recent Patient-Centered Outcome Research Institute grant for his work on developing methods and software to plan pragmatic cluster randomized trials.

The FDA Office of Minority Health and Health Equity awarded the Yale School of Medicine a $3 million contract to promote diversity in clinical trials.

Yale made great strides in this area at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the work now being funded will build on that work by further refining approaches to building trust and participation in clinical trials in diverse communities across the country.

We are pleased to announce that Ambrose Wong, MD, MSEd, MHS, Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine, has been awarded a K23 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. The K23MH126366 grant, “Clinical Decision Support Tool to Assess Risk and Prevent Agitation Events” began on 9/15/21 and was awarded for four years.

Dr. Fan Li, an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health, and a longtime member of the NIH Collaboratory’s Biostatistics and Study Design Core, has received approval for a $1 million grant award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to develop new methods and software for designing parallel and stepped wedge cluster randomized trials.

Yale School of Public Health MS graduate Jiachen Chen and Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS) faculty members Drs. Xin Zhou, Fan Li, and Donna Spiegelman have recently developed new software to calculate statistical power in stepped wedge cluster randomized trials.