2023 Robert H. Ebert Career Development Awards Granted to Two Institute Faculty

The Robert H. Ebert Career Development Award, named for the founder of Harvard Community Health Plan and former Dean of Harvard Medical School, supports the work of Institute faculty who demonstrate exceptional promise in the area of ambulatory care, primary care, or preventive medicine.

These awards provide resources to develop leading-edge programs in teaching and research and to pursue scientific and professional activities consistent with the department’s mission. Congratulations to this year’s awardees!


 

Sehwan Kim

Sehwan Kim is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. He completed his Ph.D. from Purdue University under the supervision of Dr. Faming Liang. He specializes in computational statistics with a specific focus on its application to generative models, fiducial inference, and causal inference. He is dedicated to advancing the understanding and utilization of cutting-edge statistical methodologies in medicine and health care under the mentorship of Dr. Rui Wang.

Landon Hughes

Landon Hughes is currently a Yerby Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and also holds a position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse (CoRAL). Before joining Harvard, Landon completed a Ph.D. in Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan and a BA in Sociology and Political Science at Grand Valley State University.

Thuy Thai

Thuy Thai is an epidemiologist in the Therapeutics and Infectious Disease Epidemiology group at the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. Thuy earned her pharmacy training at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She then received her Master of Public Health in epidemiology from the University of Georgia and her Ph.D. in pharmacoepidemiology from the University of Florida.
 

Michael Traeger

Michael Traeger is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. Michael received a Master of Science in Epidemiology at the University of Melbourne in 2017, and is also a research fellow at the Burnet Institute in Melbourne, Australia, where he completed his PhD in 2022.