JSM 2026 HPSS STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION AWARD WINNERS

Congratulations to the following students:

Martha Barnard, University of Minnesota, “Partially Retargeted Balancing Weights for Causal Effect Estimation under Positivity Violations”

Jiayi Hu, University of Minnesota, “A Bayesian Multivariate Meta-Analysis Model Incorporating a Monotonicity Constraint in Longitudinal Smoking Abstinence”

Lingxuan Kong, University of Michigan, “Optimizing Organ Transplant Decision on Continuous Time through Backward Ensemble Adaptive Segmentation Trees”

Jose Palacio, Rice University, “Inferring Transmission Dynamics of RSV from Houston Wastewater Data”

Constantin Schmidt, University of Cambridge, “A Fully Bayesian Causal Factor Model to Evaluate England’s Hepatitis C Peer Support Program”

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