Banerjee wins APHA award

Sudipto Banerjee has won the 2011 Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association. This award, given annually since 1970, is presented to the nation’s most outstanding public health statistician under the age
of 40.

Already the author of more than 60 refereed articles, Sudipto was recognized for pathbreaking contributions in four areas related to spatial and environmental statistics (wombling, coregionalization, spatially varying coefficients, and predictive processes). The committee also acknowledged his leadership and strong success in external funding, PhD supervision, short course instruction, software development, and journal editing and refereeing.