Section Awards, by Jaya M. Satagopan, PhD, Rutgers School of Public Health. During 2025, TSHS presented three awards to our Section members – the Young Investigator Award, the Outstanding Teaching Award, and the Distinguished Achievement Award.     YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD: Dr. Sarah Samarodnitsky Dr. Sarah Samarodnitsky, Assistant Biostatistician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, is the 2025 recipient of the Young Investigator Award . This award recognizes a young i

2026 Call for Dataset Submissions Do you have a health sciences dataset suitable for teaching that you would like to share with fellow statistics instructors? We'd love to have it! Adding a dataset to our portal is a great contribution to teaching, helps   build your teaching portfolio, and offers an opportunity to get involved with the American Statistical Association (ASA) Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences (TSHS).  Please consider submitting your data

Incoming Chair by Amanda Ellis, PhD, University of Kentucky. Happy New Year! I am Amanda Ellis , the incoming 2026 Chair of the ASA Section for Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences. On behalf of myself and the entire Executive Committee, we are looking forward to making this a great year for all our members. Let me take this opportunity to tell you about TSHS resources, upcoming events, and opportunities to get involved!  Teaching Resources: The TSHS Resources Portal

Outgoing Chair, by Jaya M. Satagopan, PhD, Rutgers University. It has been my honor to serve as your 2025 TSHS Section Chair. As I end my tenure as Chair, I would like to welcome our 2026 Section Chair, Amanda Ellis, PhD, and highlight some of our TSHS Section activities over this past year.   Executive Committee   This year, we welcomed Amanda Ellis as our 2025 Chair-Elect, who will transition to the active Chair in 2026. We also welcomed Mingzhao Hu as 2025 active Program

TSHS JSM 2025 recap The 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) was held August 2-7 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences section of the ASA was the main sponsor of a variety of exciting events, including:   Two Invited Panel Sessions: Navigating Challenges and Leveraging Opportunities in Biostatistics Graduate Education Innovations in Incorporating Collaborative Skills throughout the Statistical Training Pathway   One Topic Contributed Paper S

TSHS Resource Review Post, by Jim Dignam, University of Chicago Quality datasets are key to effective teaching of statistics concepts....

TSHS at JSM 2025 by Alex Kaizer, University of Colorado Anschutz Greetings TSHS Community! The link to the JSM 2025 website is here with...

2025 Incoming Chair Message by Jaya Satagopan, PhD, Rutgers University. Happy Spring! I am Jaya Satagopan , the incoming 2025 Chair of...

2024 Outgoing Chair Message by Melinda Higgins, PhD, Emory University. It has been my honor to serve as your 2024 TSHS Section Chair. As...

TSHS Portal Update, by Carol Bigelow, PhD, University of Massachusetts. TSHS Has two exciting new updates regarding the TSHS Portal!...