Biostatistics PhD student, Peijin Wang, has received one of the Student Paper Travel Awards from the International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS). The award recognizes her paper titled “Integrating Randomized Controlled Trial and External Control Data Using Balancing Weights: A Comparison of Estimands and Estimators.”
To earn this award, submitted papers must address real-world health policy challenges. The evaluation focused on identifying a key issue, applying appropriate study design and statistical methods, and clearly interpreting the results with an explanation of their potential policy impact.
Peijin is a third-year Biostatistics PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University School of Medicine. Her current research centers on combining clinical trial data with real-world evidence. She developed this paper in collaboration with her dissertation advisor, Dr. Hwanhee Hong, her colleague Kyungeun Jeon, and faculty members Dr. Laine Thomas and Dr. Roland Matsouaka.
As part of the award, Peijin will receive travel support to attend and present her work at ICHPS 2025 in San Diego, CA. We are all very excited to see what she accomplishes next.
Congratulations, Peijin!