Fabienne Pradella and Juditha Wójcik, both from the Chair of Statistics and Econometrics, won awards for their work at recent conferences. Juditha Wójcik won the award for the best paper at the CINCH Academy – the Essen Summer School in Health Economics 2017 – for her paper “Did the 1918 Influenza Pandemic cause Long-Term Consequences? A Systematic Analysis of 117 IPUMS International Census data sets”, which is joint work with Sebastian Vollmer from Göttingen.
Fabienne Pradella won the award for the best poster in the domain of epidemiology at the 2017 conference of the GMDS (German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology) for her poster on the research project “Effects of in-utero exposure to Ramadan in Germany: A survey study among pregnant Muslim women”, which she conducted together with Birgit Leimer, Reyn van Ewijk (both from the Chair of Statistics and Econometrics), Anja Fruth and Annette Queißer (both from our university’s medical faculty).