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Abstract:
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Population-based research in the 20th century spurred a multitude of public health advances, leading to major decreases in morbidity and mortality attributable to adverse behaviors and chronic disease as well as lengthened expected life. Statisticians played major parts in achieving these benefits. Numerous health challenges remain, and yet support for population research seems to have waned-evidenced, for example, by shifting priorities of some of the federal agencies and institutes that fund health research. Moreover, evolving technologies, massive scale of modern health measurements, increasing inter-disciplinarily and other forces are changing the milieu for population health science. Come and think through the challenges, opportunities and strategies by which statisticians help assure that population health science will continue to robustly advance the public's health throughout the 21st century.
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