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2025 Award Winners

 

Distinguished Service to SER Award David Savitz, Brown University

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David Savitz is Professor of Epidemiology in the Brown University School of Public Health, with joint appointments in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Pediatrics in the Alpert Medical School. His epidemiological research has addressed a wide range of public health issues focusing on health effects of environmental agents in the workplace and community and a wide range of reproductive health outcomes.  He has done extensive work on health effects of nonionizing radiation, pesticides, drinking water treatment by-products, and perfluorinated compounds.  His reproductive health research has focused on preterm birth, fetal growth restriction, pregnancy complications, and miscarriage. Read more

Kenneth Rothman Career Accomplishment Award Carolyn Drews-Botsch, George Mason University

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Dr. Carolyn Drews-Botsch is a Professor of Global and Community Health in the College of Public Health. Her research has focused on the epidemiology of pediatric conditions and the factors, particularly in the perinatal period, that contribute to their etiology. Specifically, her work seeks to understand these conditions, and carefully apply modern epidemiologic methods to studies of these conditions. Her research program has included work in a variety of related fields including congenital cataracts, fetal growth restriction – particularly in relationship to placental development, intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorders. Read more

Sherman James Diverse & Inclusive Award Eric Rubenstein, Boston University

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Eric Rubenstein, PhD, ScM is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health. His work is focused on improving the lives of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), including Down syndrome (DS) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Epidemiology, the science of public health, is the crucial tool that can help reach the ultimate goal of improving health and well-being for the population with IDD. That work cannot be done without input and collaboration from the IDD community, which motivates and drives the work to be impactful and translatable. Read more

Tom Koepsell & Noel Weiss Excellence in Education Award Daniel Westreich, UNC-Chapel Hill

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Dr. Daniel Westreich is a professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. He received his PhD in epidemiology from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2008. 

Substantively, his research investigates the intersection of HIV with reproductive health. This work has elucidated relationships between pregnancy and response to antiretroviral therapy, clarified methodology for studying the potential impact of hormonal contraception on acquisition of HIV. He is currently a PI of the STAR Cohort of reproductive-age HIV-positive and -negative women, and a co-investigator on the MACS-WIHS Combined Cohort Study. He also studies issues related to COVID-19, and the intersection of HIV and chronic disease. Read more

Marshall Joffe Methods Award Timothy Lash, Emory University

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Timothy L. Lash, DSc, MPH, is Rollins Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health. Dr. Lash serves as Associate Director of Population Sciences at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. In this role, he directs the integration and strategic growth of population science-based research throughout Winship and its research programs.

Dr. Lash is a member of Winship’s Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program. He serves as chairperson of the Cancer, Heart and Sleep Epidemiology B Study Section, Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He also holds memberships with the American Association of Cancer Research and the Society for Epidemiologic Research.

Dr. Lash is Honorary Professor of Cancer Epidemiology in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark. He was also President of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) for the 2014-2015 term.

Roger Detels Infectious Disease Award Anne Rimoin, University of California, Los Angeles

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Dr. Rimoin is a Professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She is the Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health. Dr. Rimoin is the director of the Center for Global and Immigrant Health and is an internationally recognized expert on emerging infections, global health, surveillance systems, and vaccination. Read more

Carol Hogue Mid-Career Award David Rehkopf, Stanford University

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I am a social epidemiologist and serve as an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health and in the Department of Medicine in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health. I joined the faculty at Stanford School of Medicine in 2011. Read more

Brian MacMahon Early Career Award Ellen Caniglia, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

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Ellen Caniglia is an assistant professor of epidemiology in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Caniglia is a perinatal and HIV epidemiologist who works to improve health outcomes among pregnant people and their children, and among people with HIV. Her work utilizes methods for causal inference to study the effects of pharmaceutical, lifestyle, and health services interventions to improve neonatal and maternal outcomes and disparities in these outcomes.

Dr. Caniglia received her ScD in Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She collaborates broadly on projects related to causal inference, HIV, and reproductive, perinatal, and pediatric epidemiology.

 

Lilienfeld Postdoctoral Prize Paper Award Eleanor Hayes-Larson, USC Davis School of Gerontology“Implications of timescale choice for estimated effects of exposures on rate of cognitive change among older adults”

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Eleanor Hayes-Larson is an epidemiologist whose research program integrates social, psychiatric, and neuroepidemiology with advanced statistical methods to understand drivers of cognitive decline and dementia incidence and disparities. Her work takes a lifecourse perspective to examine psychosocial determinants of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in diverse populations, with an emphasis on groups historically underrepresented in research. A main line of her research seeks to evaluate the impact of traumatic stress across the lifecourse on cognitive decline, dementia, and neuroimaging biomarkers. In addition, she has a line of methodological research, including both statistical simulation studies and empirical data analysis, that focuses on improving statistical tools for causal inference and generalizability of findings in cognitive aging research.

Finalists

Kathryn Wagner, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences 
“Maternal glycemic status and longitudinal fetal body composition and organ volumes based on three-dimensional ultrasonography” 

Rachel Ross, Columbia University 
“Racial and ethnic disparities in dose of opioid agonist treatment for opioid use disorder across pooled Clinical Trials Network trials” 

Kendra Sims, Boston University School of Public Health 
“Neighborhood characteristics and incident myocardial infarction in US older adults: evaluation in two nationwide cohorts” 

Lauren Zalla, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 
“State-Level Variation in Access to Long-Acting Injectable Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV in the United States”

Tyroler Student Prize Paper Award Adoma Manful, Vanderbilt University “Addressing algorithmic bias in lung cancer screening eligibility”

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I am passionate about mitigating health disparities and improving health outcomes by addressing socio-contextual determinants of health. My primary focus is on using epidemiologic methods to analyze large databases to inform policy and program development for high-quality, equitable healthcare. I currently work with Dr. Melinda Aldrich on addressing disparities in lung cancer screening. Before joining the program at Vanderbilt, I spent several years working in health services research and data analysis at Mass General Brigham and at Vanderbilt’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.

Finalists

Yiran Liu, Standford University 
“Mass incarceration as a driver of the tuberculosis epidemic in Latin America and projected impacts of policy alternatives: A mathematical modeling study” 

Tingting You, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center 
“Informing HPV vaccine pricing for government-funded vaccination in mainland China: a modelling study” 

Jingxuan Wang, University of California, San Francisco 
“Detection bias in electronic health record-based research on clinical predictors of dementia” 

Catherine Li, UNC Gillings School of Global Health 
“Estimating per-protocol effects of dolutegravir-based therapy compared to standard care in children: A re-analysis of the ODYSSEY pediatric HIV treatment trial.” 

Guoyi Yang, University of Pennsylvania 
“Illustrating the structures of bias from immortal time using directed acyclic graphs” 

Karilynn Rockhill, Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Safety 
“Polysubstance Use Profiles Among the General Adult Population, 2022 United States: A Latent Class Analysis” 

Susser - Stein Award Winners

Safyer McKenzie-Samspon – Stanford University
Doreen Larvie – Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University
Esther Ekwonwa – University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Scholarships SER/SPC Travel

Caroline Kravitz

Claire Cook

Damilola S Shaba

Deepika Dinesh

Elisabeth Brandstetter Figueroa

Hiroya Morita

Kyle Busse

Lin-Chieh Meng

Rachel Myrer

Suyoung Jo

Tsegaye Haile

Stephen L Buka Travel

Hyejin Kim

Janet Lane-Claypon Travel

Alicia Nevriana

Kathy Rose Travel

Akihiro Shiroshita

Doreen Larvie

Kenneth Rothman Travel

Ayse Ulgen
Augusto Cesar F. De Moraes
Olatokunmbo Osibogun