Vital Collaborations Among Academia, Industry, and Government

• Activity Number: 307
• Type: Topic Contributed
• Date/Time: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
• Sponsor: Health Policy Statistics Section
• Author(s): Dongseok Choi* and John E. Kolassa* and Mani Lakshminarayanan * and Barry D. Nussbaum * and A. James O'Malley* and Wei Shen *
• Companies: Oregon Health & Science University and Rutgers University and Pfizer Inc. and EPA and Dartmouth College and Eli Lilly and Company
• Keywords: Partnership ; Academia ; Industry ; Government ; Inter-Disciplinary Research ; Big Data

Abstract

The American Statistical Association (ASA), through the Health Policy Statistics Section (HPSS) and the Committee on Statistical Partnerships among Academe, Industry and Government (SPAIG), will highlight cutting-edge collaborative projects through successful partnerships between academic, industry, and/or government organizations. Several panelists from various professional sectors will visit and discuss outstanding partnerships. Frequently, sharing of ideas between statisticians from different organizations leads to exchange visits, support for graduate students, consulting jobs, grant support for faculty, and continuing education opportunities for statisticians outside of academe. Through these activities statistical problems from outside academe become cases studies presented in the classroom and dissertation topics. The intellectual exchange that results is a key component of such partnerships. This session will have wide appeal, given the increasing focus on inter-disciplinary research and the emergence of complex and high dimensional big data as such challenges are common in health care research. The discussion will be valuable to statisticians in diverse areas and sectors.