Johns Hopkins Biostatistics

Congratulations to Biostats Postdoc Sandipan Pramanik and Professor Abhirup Datta who each received an Excellence in Public Health Practice Award! 🎉

Abhi was part of a team who received an Excellence in Baltimore Public Health Practice award (in collaboration with JHU SOURCE, the Community Engagement and Service-Learning Center) for their project “Community-Engaged Investigation of Coal Dust and Air Pollution Burden in Curtis Bay, Baltimore.” 🔗 https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/air-pollution-in-baltimores-curtis-bay-community-linked-to-nearby-coal-terminal-activities-and-wind

Sandy received an Excellence in International Public Health Practice award for his project “Verbal Autopsy Calibration: Enhancing Population-Level Child Mortality Estimates.” 🔗 https://publichealth.jhu.edu/practice/award-winning-students-excellence-in-public-health-practice-winners

Congratulations to our Biostatistics faculty who each received an "excellence in teaching" for the 2025-26 third term!

Each term, the School recognizes faculty who have contributed significantly to the intellectual life of the School through their excellence in teaching. Visit the School's Excellence in Teaching page for a full list of names and courses by term: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/offices-and-services/office-of-academic-affairs/faculty-recognition/excellence-in-teaching

Congratulations to Daniel Obeng on his first Golden Apple Award!! 🍎🎉The Golden Apple Award is awarded to faculty members for excellence in teaching, with the winners chosen by votes from the entire Bloomberg School student body.

Congratulations to our PhD and ScM 2026 Graduates!! 👏🎉 Our graduates are off to exciting new positions and adventures, including PhD programs at Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Pittsburg, The Ohio State University, UNC Chapel Hill, Yale, and Karolinska Institutet, as well as new roles at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Humana, Pfizer, Waymo, LLX Solutions LLC, The University of Utah, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Bard College, Wake Forest University, University of Virginia, and more!

To view the Convocation live, today at 9 a.m., go to: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/academics/convocation

Congratulations to Biostats Professor, and past-Chair, Karen Bandeen-Roche, who has been selected as the 2026 recipient of the Ernest Lyman Stebbins Medal—the highest honor bestowed by the Bloomberg School to a faculty member who has made extraordinary contributions to the School’s teaching programs over a period of at least five years. 🎉🎉🎉

Karen will receive the award from Dean Pollack Porter at BSPH's convocation ceremony this Wednesday.

Last Tuesday, our Department hosted our annual Spring Forum where we celebrated our soon-to-be graduating students, as well as our faculty and students accomplishments this past year. 🎉 Thank you to everyone for attending and participating; it is always a joy to gather and connect as a community!

Additionally, we presented Department awards to: Anik Burman, who received the June B. Culley Award (for best preliminary oral exam paper); Zheng Ren, who received the Jane and Steve Dykacz Award (honoring best student paper in medical statistics); and John Muschelli, who received the Joint High Performance Computing Exchange BIT Award. 👏

This past Friday night, at the annual BSPH dinner honoring newly promoted faculty, we celebrated Abhi Datta’s promotion to Professor! 🎉 In attendance were Biostats Chair Liz Stuart; Marie Diener-West in her role with the MPH program; John McGready in his role on the School’s Appointments & Promotions Committee; and Abhi’s wife, Debashree Ray, Associate Professor in Epidemiology. Congratulations Abhi! 👏

Congratulations to Daniel Obeng and Stephanie Hicks who each received an inaugural teaching award given by the Bloomberg School's Office of Academic Affairs and the BSPH Teaching Council! 👏👏🎉

Daniel received the "Innovation in Teaching Award" which recognizes faculty who have demonstrated excellence in teaching through the implementation of evidence-based, high-impact, and/or experimental instructional approaches that meaningfully enhance student learning.

Stephanie received the "Outstanding Educator Award" which recognizes faculty who demonstrate sustained excellence in teaching across their instructional portfolio.

On Monday, we hosted our annual student research showcase, where we had the opportunity to see the amazing work our students do and celebrate their accomplishments as a community. Thank you to everyone who participated!

Biostats Chair Elizabeth Stuart recently received $1 million in funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to lead a project to address real-world treatment decision challenges facing patients and clinicians.

Stuart will develop statistical methods and data visualization tools, using large-scale health data, to identify the most effective treatments across a variety of conditions.

Learn more about the project on our website:

Bloomberg School to Receive Funding for Two Patient-Focused Research Projects | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health One will assess support programs for dementia caregivers; the other will develop statistical methods that use large-scale healthcare data.