Professor Bhramar Mukherjee is appointed as John D. Kalbfleisch Distinguished University Professor, Siobán D. Harlow Collegiate Professor of Public Health, and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She is also a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Global Public Health and has been actively engaged with the U-M Precision Health initiative, a presidential initiative at the University of Michigan, as well as the Michigan Institute of Data Science (MIDAS).
Dr. Mukherjee’s research interests span statistical methods for analyzing electronic health records, gene-environment interaction studies, Bayesian methods, shrinkage estimation, and the analysis of multiple pollutants. Collaboratively, she contributes to areas such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, reproductive health, exposure science, and environmental epidemiology. As a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Mukherjee has received numerous awards for her outstanding scholarship, service, and teaching and has been elected to the US National Academy of Medicine. She has been a strong advocate of diversifying the data science workforce and for global data equity.
