The Donna J. Brogan Lecture Series

This annual lecture honors Donna J. Brogan, an outstanding former faculty member and chair in the Department of Biostatistics of the Rollins School of Public Health, and is made possible in large part by the generous support of Donna and her colleagues and friends.  Dr. Brogan has been Professor Emerita since her retirement from Emory in 2004.

2012 Donna J. Brogan Lecture

April 23, 2012 at 4:00-5:00 pm, reception following
Klamon Room, Claudia Nance Rollins Building

Dr. Ron Brookmeyer  is the 2012 Brogan lecturer and will present "AIDS: Statistical Science and Public Health" in the Rollins School of Public Health. The abstract of Dr. Brookmeyer's talk is here.

Dr.  Brookmeyer is Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was previously Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the Master of Public Health Program at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

His research is at the interface of biostatistics, epidemiology and public health. He uses the tools of the statistical and informational sciences to address global public health problems such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic, biosecurity issues such as anthrax, disease surveillance, and the health challenges of aging populations.  He has authored over 150 peer reviewed articles. He has written and edited three books including AIDS Epidemiology: A Quantitative Approach, and Monitoring the Health of Populations.

Dr. Brookmeyer is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and received the American Public Health Association’s Spiegelman gold medal for significant contributions to health statistics. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a three time recipient of the Johns Hopkins Golden Apple Teaching Award and received the University’s Stebbins medal for development of educational programs. He has served on numerous editorial boards, national scientific panels, including the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council, and recently served on the Institute of Medicine Panel on methodological challenges in HIV prevention trials.  Dr. Brookmeyer currently serves on the Institute of Medicine Panel to evaluate the President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

Dr. Brookmeyer has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Cooper Union and masters and doctoral degrees in statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Location: Lawrence P. & Ann Estes Klamon Room, #8030 on 8th floor, Claudia Nance Rollins Building, Rollins School of Public Health,   1518 Clifton Road, N.E., Atlanta, GA 30322. Visitor parking is available in the Michael Street Visitors Lot (behind Grace Crum Rollins Bldg., 2nd deck entrance) or at the 1525 Clifton Road Visitor pay parking deck (building directly across the street from Grace Crum Rollins Building).

Questions: Bob Waggoner, rwaggon@emory.edu

History of the Donna J. Brogan Lecture in Biostatistics

The Donna J. Brogan Lecture in Biostatistics was established in late 2004 by the Biostatistics Department of the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University to honor the outstanding career of Dr. Donna Jean Brogan, a biostatistics/statistics faculty member at Emory for 34 years.  Emory recognized Dr. Brogan's inspiring career with a gala retirement celebration in 2004.  Her colleagues, friends and family members marked this occasion with gifts to support what would become the annual Donna J. Brogan Lecture in Biostatistics. These lectures, always in April, may be related to Dr. Brogan's research interests in sample surveys, breast cancer epidemiology and statistical education.  Since the inception of the lectures in 2006, preeminent scholars and lecturers in biostatistics have visited Emory to deliver the lecture in honor of Dr. Brogan.

In 2010, Dr. Brogan made a significant contribution to establish an endowment fund that will provide funding continuity for the lecture.  Her endowment, combined with generous gifts from colleagues and friends, makes possible one of only two named lectures at the Rollins School of Public Health.  If you wish to contribute to the endowment fund for this lecture, click here. Please choose Rollins School of Public Health for "Select Direction" and Donna J. Brogan Lecture in Biostatistics for "Select Fund".

Previous Years' Lectures:

• 2011: “What is Quality? Government Statistics and the Larger Social Science World”
  by Dr. Robert Groves, Ph.D.
• 2010: "Statistical Issues in Breast Cancer Screening and Treatment"
  by Donald A Berry, Ph.D.

• 2009: "Statistical Issues and Challenges in Analyzing High-throughput "Omics" Data"
  by Xihong Lin, Ph.D.

• 2008: "Tests of Gene-Environment Interaction: Family Based Designs and Analysis"
  by Nan M. Laird, Ph.D.

• 2007: "Absolute Risk: Clinical Applications and Controversies"
  by Mitchell H. Gail, M.D., Ph.D.

• 2006: "Costs of Smoking in the United States: Disease, Death, Dollars"
  by Scott Zeger, Ph.D.