Congratulations to the latest recipients of the Dr. Carol S. Gleich Development Award! This award is available to faculty members and graduate students in the College of Public Health to support travel expenses to perform an official function at a national or international meeting.

Applications for this award are reviewed twice yearly, on or around October 1 and March 1. Award details, eligibility, and submission guidelines are available here.

March 2026 Recipients

Students

Samuella Boadi PhD Student, Biostatistics
Meeting: American Statistical Association, Joint Statistical Meetings
Location: Boston, MA
Meeting Dates: August 1-6, 2026
Purpose: Presentation, “A Unified Function for Hierarchical Bayesian Nonlinear Modeling of Longitudinal Eye-Tracking Data”

John Cobbinah PhD Student, Biostatistics
Meeting: American Statistical Association, Joint Statistical Meetings
Location: Boston, MA
Meeting Dates: August 1-6, 2026
Purpose: Presentation, “Machine Learning-Based Risk Stratification for 30-Day Hospital Readmission”

Ferney Henao-Ceballos PhD Student, Biostatistics
Meeting: American Statistical Association, Joint Statistical Meetings
Location: Boston, MA
Meeting Dates: August 1-6, 2026
Purpose: Presentation, “Improving Prehospital Stroke Destination Decisions with a Bayesian Predictive Algorithm”n”

Fangfang Jiang PhD Student, Biostatistics
Meeting: International Workshop on Sequential Methodologies
Location: Washington, DC
Meeting Dates: June 1-4, 2026
Purpose: Presentation, “Adaptive Shrinkage Estimation for Dose-Toxicity Relationships in Small-Sample Settings “

Daniel Kakou PhD Student, Biostatistics
Meeting: American Statistical Association, Joint Statistical Meetings
Location: Boston, MA
Meeting Dates: August 1-6, 2026
Purpose: Presentation, “Precision Risk Prediction for Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma in Individuals with Ocular Hypertension”

Dosten Kpozehouen PhD Student, Biostatistics
Meeting: Eastern North American Region International Biometric Society Annual Meeting
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Meeting Dates: March 15-18, 2026
Purpose: Presentation, “Leveraging Predictor Correlations for Faster and Smarter Variable Selection: The Correlation-Based Adaptive Lasso (CBAL)” 

Mark Krysan PhD Student, Biostatistics
Meeting: American Statistical Association, Joint Statistical Meetings
Location: Boston, MA
Meeting Dates: August 1-6, 2026
Purpose: Presentation, “Relational Priors using Exponential Tilting”

Quinn Stoddard-O’Neil PhD Student, Biostatistics
Meeting: American Statistical Association, Joint Statistical Meetings
Location: Boston, MA
Meeting Dates: August 1-6, 2026
Purpose: Presentation, “A Conditional Autoregressive Approach to Model Age-Adjusted Rates of Ovarian Cancer Incidence”