An associate professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Data Science, Prince Afriyie, has been appointed to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States.
Dr Afriyie, who is a Ghanaian, will serve for the next three years on the statistics review committee of CDC, an official communication said.
The goal of the statistics review committee (SRC) is to advance understanding and dissemination of statistical methods and testing in the field of public health and to help practitioners use this statistical knowledge to decrease chronic disease and improve health across the lifespan.
PCD’s SRC members are volunteers with training and expertise in statistics and biostatistics who assist the journal with assessing peer-reviewed articles to determine the appropriateness of the research and evaluation questions.
About Dr Afriyie
Dr Afriyie is also the director of the Master of Data Science course at the University of Virginia (UVA). He received his PhD in statistics from Temple University.
His research includes multiple comparisons, survival analysis as well as statistics and data science education.
His research in multiple comparisons focuses on developing new and powerful methodologies for testing multiple hypotheses simultaneously, including the application of statistics on high-throughput genomic data in detecting differentially expressed genes between two groups — cancer and no cancer.
Currently, in collaboration with the cardiology department at UVA Health, Dr Afriyie helps with statistical risk analysis pertaining to heart failure. He has published his research in statistics, agriculture, business and medical journals.
Reporting by Fred Dzakpata in Accra
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