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Activity Number: 226 - Challenges and Opportunities for Funding Statistical Innovation
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Abstract #320481
Title: Challenges and Opportunities for Funding Statistical Innovation
Author(s): Dallas Wayne Anderson* and Kiros T Berhane* and Douglas Landsittel* and Michelle D Shardell* and Donna Spiegelman* and Molin Wang*
Companies: National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health and Columbia University and Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington and University of Maryland School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Keywords: Careers; Funding; Reviews; Research; Methodology; Collaboration
Abstract:

A major career challenge for many statistics and biostatistics faculty is balancing the demands of collaborative research versus funding their own research portfolio. Opportunities for funding methods development are relatively limited and highly competitive, and often hindered by a general lack of knowledge about the potential opportunities. Numerous funding opportunities exist for embedding innovative methodology development within applications focused a specific discipline and some statisticians have successfully focused their careers on advancing knowledge in other scientific fields, often making innovative applications of statistical methodology in the process. Success in any of these avenues requires a strong understanding of a funding agency’s interests and the ability to match one’s research interest with the program goals. This panel brings together successful applicants and reviewers and a program officer across a range of institutions to discuss the associated challenges and opportunities to further statistical innovation and statistical careers.


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