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Session: Lowell Reed Lecture, Spiegelman and Statistics Section Awards
4242.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Lowell Reed Lecture, Spiegelman and Statistics Section Awards
The role of quantitative methods in public health and medical research is imperative to evaluating the effectivenes of new treatment programs and policies. The purpose of this session is to review and update the participate on examples of major areas of application of quantitative methods. Many different examples exist that can be used to demonstrate both the older and newer issues involved when applying measuremeny and statistical methodologies to a particular application such as: cancer prevention, disease diagnosis, public health screening, disease surveillance, drug development and safety monitoring, the conduct of clinical trials, evaluation methods for public health program evaluation, as well as genomics and genetics, envioronmental, materinal and child health, laboratoly, epidemiolgocal and health and social behavior research. Each year the Lowell Reed Lecture Series selects a distinguished individual that reviews a particular application of quantitative methodology to a public health research question. The session outlines the history, methods, applications and new advances for the quantitative methods described in the presentation.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, the participant should be able to 1. Describe the historical context of an application of quantitative methods to public health research 2. Give examples of the measurement and statistical methods used in the application 3. Evaluate the needs for future research and innovation in quantitative methods applications. 4. Chart out goals and objectives for further research in quantitiative methods applicable for solving public health problems.
Organizer(s):Marcia A. Testa, MPH, PhD
2:30 PMSpiegelman and Statistics Section Awards -- Committee Chairs: Daniel E. Weeks and Martin C. Weinrich
2:40 PM2004 Spiegelman Award Winner --- Mark van der Laan, Ph.D., Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics, U.C. Berkeley
2:50 PMStatistics Section Awards -- To Be Announced
3:00 PM2004 Lowell Reed Lecture: Biostatistics, the FDA and Public Health  [ Recorded presentation ]
Robert T. O'Neill, PhD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Statistics
CE Credits:Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA