Cohn and Gamarel recognized for work in data and health

Cohn named INFORMS fellow and Gamarel received a National Institutes of Health Sexual & Gender Minority Mid-Career Investigator Award

Amy M. Cohn, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; professor of industrial and operations engineering in the College of Engineering; professor of health management and policy in the School of Public Health; and chief transformation officer at Michigan Medicine, has been named to the 2024 class of INFORMS Fellows, one of the highest honors in the field of operations research and analytics. INFORMS is the premier international association for the decision and data sciences.

Kristi Gamarel, John G. Searle Assistant Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, and associate professor of health behavior and health equity in the School of Public Health; and research associate professor in the Institute for Social Research’s Population Studies Center, has been awarded the 2024 National Institutes of Health Sexual & Gender Minority Mid-Career Investigator Award from the NIH Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office. It recognizes Gamarel’s substantial and outstanding research contributions to the field of sexual and gender minority research.