Public Health Statistics — ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:20:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Bhavneet Walia /faculty-experts/bhavneet-walia/ Mon, 30 Jan 2023 16:38:44 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=167875 Bhavneet Walia is associate professor of public health, senior research associate in the Center for Policy Research, faculty affiliate in the Aging Studies Institute, research affiliate in the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health.

Walia is an applied health and labor econometrician. Her research interests are in the areas of health care efficiency (including markets for health care workers), maternal-child health, disability research and sports epidemiology. Her research work has appeared in leading field journals, including JAMA Network Open,ÌýPLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases,ÌýBMJ Global Health,ÌýJMIR Human Factors,ÌýJournal of Market Access & Health Policy,ÌýJournal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Sports Economics.

]]> Penelope Pooler /faculty-experts/penelope-pooler/ Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:45:16 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=167841 Penelope Pooler is a professor of statistics, analytics, and data science. Before joining the Whitman faculty, she worked as a senior scientist at Integral Consulting, Inc. She also worked as a senior statistician at SUNY Upstate Medical University in ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ, New York, and spent many years working for the National Park Service and the U.S.G.S. on long term monitoring questions associated with climate change. She has also consulted with numerous clients in need of statistical and quantitative solutions to business challenges and data questions.

Professor Pooler earned her B.F.A. in economics and metalsmithing from ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ, an MS. in statistics from Oregon State University, and her Ph.D. in statistics from Virginia Tech.
Research Topics

Statistical modeling
Data Science
Risk Analysis
Environmental Statistics
Public Health Statistics
R coding
SAS coding

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