Regina L. Loewenstein (February 10, 1916 – May 16, 1999)[1] was an American public health statistician who worked as a lecturer in the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.[2]
Life edit
Loewenstein was born on February 10, 1916.[3] She graduated from Barnard College in 1936,[4] and earned a master's degree in mathematics from Columbia University in 1937, with the master's thesis The elliptic functions of Legendre and Jacobi.[5]
In 1948, she was chief of the operations department of the Study of Child Health Services of the American Academy of Pediatrics.[6] Beginning in the late 1940s, she worked with Gilbert Wheeler Beebe as a statistics researcher in the Medical Follow-up Agency of the National Research Council (NRC),[7] and by 1952 she was listed as chief of the statistics section of the Committee on Veterans Medical Problems of the NRC,[8] before later returning to Columbia as a faculty member.[2]
In 1971, she helped found the Caucus for Women in Statistics of the American Statistical Association, serving as one of its four original executive committee members.[9] She was also active for many years in the American Public Health Association.[8][10]
Recognition edit
Loewenstein was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1976.[11] Columbia University offers a student prize, the Regina Loewenstein Prize for Academic Excellence in Health Policy and Management, named in her honor.
References edit
- ^ "Loewenstein, Regina", Paid death notices, The New York Times, 18 May 1999
- ^ a b "In memorial: The university honors the lives of those who've passed away", Columbia University Record, p. 7, 14 April 2000
- ^ "Regina Loewenstein", Social Security Death Index, retrieved 2021-08-21 – via fold3
- ^ "Alumnae donors: Class of 1936", Barnard Alumnae Magazine, p. 29, Fall 1966
- ^ WorldCat catalog entry for The elliptic functions of Legendre and Jacobi, accessed 2021-08-21
- ^ "Applications for membership: Vital statistics section", Association News, American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health, 38 (4), American Public Health Association: 588, April 1948, doi:10.2105/ajph.38.4.587
- ^ Berkowitz, E. D.; Santangelo, M. J. (1999), "2: The Early Committee Years", The Medical Follow-up Agency: The First Fifty Years 1946–1996, Washington (DC): National Academies Press
- ^ a b "Applications for fellowship: Statistics section", Association News, American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health, 42 (9), American Public Health Association: 1189, September 1952, doi:10.2105/ajph.42.9.1188
- ^ Golbeck, Amanda (April 2020), "Supporting an inclusive community: A Caucus for Women in Statistics", Significance, 17 (2), Wiley: 42–44, doi:10.1111/1740-9713.01379, S2CID 216497864
- ^ "APHA's new 40-year members, 1988", Association News, American Journal of Public Health, 78 (12), American Public Health Association: 1602, December 1988, doi:10.2105/ajph.78.12.1600
- ^ ASA Fellows List, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2016-07-22