Congratulations to Fan Li, associate professor of biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health, for receiving the Early Career Research Excellence Award from the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) and the Emerging Leader Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS).

Li is a longtime member of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory’s Biostatistics and Study Design Core. He is also a member of the IMPACT Collaboratory’s Design and Statistics Core and a recipient of PCORI awards to develop methods for cluster randomized trials.

The ASPPH Early Career Research Excellence Award goes to early-career investigators who are making significant contributions to research in public health science. Li is the first biostatistician to receive the award. Read the full citation.

The COPSS Emerging Leader Award recognizes early-career statisticians for their education and mentoring, leadership, and contributions to the profession. Li’s citation for the award notes his “foundational contributions to causal inference methods for pragmatic clinical trials and observational studies; for leadership in advancing statistical practice in patient-centered clinical research; and for outstanding mentorship and professional service.”