Modern Biostatistical Methods for Evidence-Based Global Health Research / Emerging Topics in Statistics and Biostatistics (PDF)

Ding-Geng (Din) Chen is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He is currently the executive director and professor in biostatistics at the College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, USA. Professor Chen is also the DST-NRF-SAMRC research chair in Biostatistics and an Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Statistics, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He was the Wallace H. Kuralt Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Professor in Biostatistics at the University of Rochester and the Karl E. Peace endowed eminent scholar chair in biostatistics at Georgia Southern University. He is also a senior consultant for biopharmaceuticals and government agencies with extensive expertise in clinical trial biostatistics and public health statistics. Professor Chen has written more than 200 refereed publications and co-authored/co-edited 33 books on clinical trial methodology, meta-analysis, causal-inference, Monte-Carlo simulation-based statistical modeling, big data analytics, and statistical modeling for the public health applications. His research has been funded as PI/Co-PI from NIH R01s and other state and federal government agencies with multi-million dollars.



Samuel Manda is a Professor and Head of the Department of Statistics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. He also holds Extraordinary Professorships at the Universities of Stellenbosch and North-West His main research interests concentrate on modern statistical methods for the analysis of survival, multivariate spatial data; and evidence and data combination. He has recently started working on multivariate small area estimation and causal effect estimation. He has also been involved with the analysis of COVID 19 transmission parameters and prediction in sub-Saharan Africa. . He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters