Professor Bhramar Mukherjee

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YEAR STARTED

2022

SUBJECT

Biostatistics

FELLOW TYPE

Overseas Fellow

Professor Bhramar Mukherjee is appointed as Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. Professor Mukherjee serves as the inaugural Senior Associate Dean of Public Health Data Science and Data Equity at the school. She holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Yale. Prior to joining Yale University in 2024, Dr. Mukherjee built a distinguished career at the University of Michigan where she was appointed as John D. Kalbfleisch Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics and the first woman Chair of the Department of Biostatistics (2018-2024). She is known for her contribution to statistical methods for integration of genetic, environmental and disease data from large healthcare databases. She is winner of many awards, including the 2023 Karl Peace award from the ASA for betterment of society through statistics, the 2024 Marvin Zelen Leadership in Statistical science award from Harvard Biostatistics. She is a fellow of the ASA, AAAS, and an elected member of the US National Academy of Medicine. She has written more than 400 articles and supervised 22 PhD and 4 post-doctoral scholars. She is the founding director of a flagship undergraduate summer program on big data. She is the President elect for ENAR, an eminent professional society for biostatisticians. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she and her team created a model and app for tracking the trajectory of the SARs-CoV-2 virus in India, a work that garnered recognition from worldwide media. After spending her sabbatical as a Visiting by Fellow in 2022 at Churchill College, she joined Churchill College as an Overseas fellow in 2024.