School Notes: School of Public Health
March/April 2025

Biostatistics professors earn top honors

Three professors in the Department of Biostatistics have been chosen to lead major national and international biostatistics organizations—a rare distinction that underscores the department’s standing as a global leader in pioneering research and statistical science.

Biostatistics department chair Shuangge Steven Ma, an expert in developing new statistical and bioinformatics methods to analyze cancer and other diseases, is currently president-elect of the New England Statistical Society. Previous department chair and Ira V. Hiscock Professor of Biostatistics Hongyu Zhao, whose research focuses on statistical methods for the study of genetics, molecular biology, and other areas, is president-elect of the International Chinese Statistical Association. And Bhramar Mukherjee, senior associate dean of public health data science and data equity, is president-elect of the Eastern North American region of the International Biometrics Society, one of the world’s biggest and most prominent biostatistics societies.

Data solutions innovator joins YSPH

One of the country’s most distinguished leaders in developing novel public health strategies, Anne Zink, has joined the Yale School of Public Health as a lecturer and senior fellow in the Department of Health Policy and Management.

Zink, who began her position on December 1, is nationally recognized for implementing data-driven health care solutions and advocating for health improvements at local, tribal, territorial, state, and national levels.

“As a senior fellow at YSPH, Dr. Zink will be deeply engaged in teaching, mentorship, and collaboration on health data initiatives and health communication across our school,” Dean Megan L. Ranney said. “We are truly honored for her to bring her deep knowledge—in public health leadership, in crisis communication, in rural and indigenous American public health, in public health data—to our school.”