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SUMMARY:(Henry Seely White Lecture I)\, Bhramar Mukherjee\, University of Michigan
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday April 22 at 5PM in Rocky 300 for the first of two Henry Seely White Lectures delivered by Professor Bhramar Mukherjee\, University of Michigan. \nNote: This is the first of two lectures in the Henry Seely White Lecture Series. The second lecture is on Tuesday April 23 at 3PM. \nTitle: The Data Struggle of the Unseen \nAbstract: Despite several proposed roadmaps to increase diversity in scientific research\, most of the world’s research data are collected on people of European ancestry. We rely on summary statistics from historically privileged populations and then devise clever statistical methods to transfer/transport them for cross-ancestry use. In this talk\, I would first argue the obvious: for building fair algorithms we need fair training datasets. However\, till we have reached the dream of equitable big data at a global scale\, statisticians have an important role to play. In fact we have the perfect tools to study the “unobserved” through modeling of missing data\, selection bias and alike. I will share examples from my personal journey as a statistician where doing good and timely statistical work with imperfect data quantified important disparity in health outcomes and led to policy impact. I will conclude the talk with a call to arms for statisticians to lead efforts for creating\, curating\, collecting data and pioneering new scientific studies\, not just remain on the design and analytic fringes. As public health statisticians\, our job is not just to predict\, but to prevent. The talk is based on years of work with my students and colleagues at the Department of Biostatistics\, University of Michigan and inspired by the transformative experience we shared as a statistical team working on the COVID-19 pandemic.
URL:https://pages.vassar.edu/mathstats/event/henry-seely-white-lecture1/
LOCATION:Rockefeller Hall 300
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