The award is given to an exceptional paper that advances the field of health economics and outcomes research and is expected to have a substantial impact on the field with anticipated wide acceptance and application by others. Professor O’Malley’s paper, "Modeling a Bivariate Residential-Workplace Neighborhood Effect when Estimating the Effect of Proximity to Fast-Food Establishments on Body Mass Index,” developed new statistical methodology for studying the risk of geographical factors on a health outcome (e.g., increased body mass index). The paper, published in Statistics in Medicine (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sim.8039), was co-authored with researchers from Dartmouth (Todd MacKenzie, Jinyoung Byun), Partners Health Care System (Jason Block) and Harvard School of Public Health (Peter James, SV Subramanian) and was part of a major study on the relationship of the proximity of food establishments to obesity. Dr. O’Malley will receive his award in May at the ISPOR conference in New Orleans.
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