Sharon-Lise Normand was selected to give the Marvin Zelen Keynote Address at the joint meeting of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Italian Regions of the International Biometrics Society held in May in Thessaloniki, Greece. 

The keynote address honors Marvin Zelen, a giant in the field of biostatistics, who died November 2014. In her talk, “Data, Statistics, and Inference,” Professor Normand emphasized Marvin Zelen’s pioneering development and use of quantitatively rigorous methodology in statistical science. She noted that with increased access to electronic health information, ambitious attempts to understand the effect caused by new medical interventions in usual care populations have intensified.

Moreover, global connectedness of health information has informed country-specific public health policy decisions. By conditioning on rich confounding information, utilizing larger populations, and multiple sources of information, researchers aim to comply with key principles underpinning causal inference. During her keynote, she  discussed current (and future) substantive and methodological problems in statistical science. 

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