Arlene Ash

Arlene Sandra Ash is an American statistician who works on risk adjustment in health services. She is a professor of Quantitative Health Sciences in the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and chief of the Biostatistics and Health Services Research division there.^[1]

Ash did her undergraduate studies in mathematics at Harvard College. She earned a master's degree in mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis, and a PhD in statistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.^[1] Ash taught mathematics in the Peace Corps in the 1960s, helped start two feminist health centers in Chicago in the 1970s, and founded a company, DxCG Inc., to apply her risk adjustment models. Before joining the University of Massachusetts she taught at Boston University.^[2]

Beyond health, Ash is also interested in electoral integrity, and has chaired the American Statistical Association Subcommittee on Electoral Integrity.^[2]^[3] She has also been involved in the anti-nuclear movement and has worked for equal pay for women.^[2]

She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association^[1] and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.^[4] In 2010 she won the Long-Term Excellence Award of the American Statistical Association Section on Health Policy Statistics.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Arlene S Ash PhD", UMass Profiles, University of Massachusetts Medical School, retrieved 2017-10-20
^ ^a ^b ^c Snider, Valerie (September 2007), "Arlene Sandra Ash" (PDF), Statisticians in History, Amstat News, pp. 4–5, archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-10-21, retrieved 2017-10-20
^ ^a ^b Dr. Arlene Ash receives Long-Term Excellence Award from the ASA, University of Massachusetts Medical School, archived from the original on 2017-10-21, retrieved 2017-10-20
^ Individual members, International Statistical Institute, retrieved 2018-12-18