Biography:Arlene Ash
Arlene Sandra Ash is an American statistician who works on risk adjustment in health services. She is a professor of Quantitative Health Sciences in the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and chief of the Biostatistics and Health Services Research division there.[1]
Ash did her undergraduate studies in mathematics at Harvard College. She earned a master's degree in mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis, and a PhD in statistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.[1] Ash taught mathematics in the Peace Corps in the 1960s, helped start two feminist health centers in Chicago in the 1970s, and founded a company, DxCG Inc., to apply her risk adjustment models. Since 1978, she has been involved as an expert witness in public policy issues, including the environmental impact of a nuclear power plant and equity in pay for women teachers. Before joining the University of Massachusetts she taught at Boston University.[2]
Beyond health, Ash is also interested in electoral integrity, and has chaired the American Statistical Association Subcommittee on Electoral Integrity.[2][3] She has also been involved in the anti-nuclear movement and has worked for equal pay for women.[2]
She was President of the Caucus for Women in Statistics in 1986. She became a fellow of the American Statistical Association[1] in 1998 and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[4] In 2010 she won the Long-Term Excellence Award of the American Statistical Association Section on Health Policy Statistics.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Arlene S Ash PhD", UMass Profiles (University of Massachusetts Medical School), https://profiles.umassmed.edu/display/130117, retrieved 2017-10-20
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Snider, Valerie (September 2007), "Arlene Sandra Ash", Amstat News: 4–5, https://ww2.amstat.org/about/statisticiansinhistory/bios/asharlene.pdf, retrieved 2017-10-20
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Dr. Arlene Ash receives Long-Term Excellence Award from the ASA, University of Massachusetts Medical School, https://www.umassmed.edu/qhs/news/2010/11/dr-arlene-ash-long-term-excellence-award/, retrieved 2017-10-20
- ↑ Individual members, International Statistical Institute, https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/about-isi/who-is-isi/members/indivual, retrieved 2018-12-18
External links
- Arlene Ash publications indexed by Google Scholar
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