Bhramar Mukherjee named the 2025 recipient of the Richard and Barbara Hansen Leadership Award
Published on October 15, 2025
The University of Iowa College of Public Health has selected Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD, as the 2025 recipient of the Richard and Barbara Hansen Leadership Award. She is the Senior Associate Dean of Public Health Data Science and Data Equity, Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Biostatistics, Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Disease), and Professor of Statistics and Data Science (Secondary) at the Yale School of Public Health.
She will visit the University of Iowa College of Public Health in spring 2026 to deliver the Hansen Distinguished Lecture.
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Bhramar Mukherjee is the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH). Dr. Mukherjee serves as the inaugural Senior Associate Dean of Public Health Data Science and Data Equity at YSPH. She holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Statistics and Data Science and is affiliated with the MacMillan Center and the Institute for the Foundations of Data Science. She serves on the Yale Cancer Center Director’s cabinet.
Prior to joining Yale University in 2024, Dr. Mukherjee built a distinguished career at the University of Michigan from 2006-2024, where she was appointed as John D. Kalbfleisch Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics (2023-2024), Siobán D. Harlow Collegiate Professor of Public Health (2023-2024), John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics (2015-2023), and chair of the Department of Biostatistics (2018-2024). She held several other significant leadership appointments at Michigan.
Dr. Mukherjee’s research interests span statistical methods for analyzing electronic health records, gene-environment interaction studies, data integration, data equity, shrinkage estimation, and the analysis of environmental mixtures. Collaboratively, she contributes to areas such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, reproductive health, exposure science, and environmental epidemiology.
Her public health interests include Bayesian statistics; cancer; chronic diseases; COVID-19; environmental health; epidemiology methods; genetics, genomics, and epigenetics; global health; health equity, disparities, social determinants and justice; infectious diseases; and modeling.
With over 415 publications in statistics, biostatistics, medicine, and public health, Dr. Mukherjee is globally recognized for her research contributions in integrating genetic, environmental, and health outcome data. She has served as the principal investigator on methodology grants funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Mukherjee is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Mukherjee has received numerous awards for her outstanding scholarship, service, and teaching. In 2022, she was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine.
She received an MS in applied statistics and data analysis from the Indian Statistical Institute, an MS in mathematical statistics from Purdue University, and a PhD in statistics from Purdue University.