was invited by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China and the China Overseas Exchange Association to participate in the 2015 Eminent Young Overseas Chinese Forum held in Beijing.
was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics; awarded a Distinguished Achievement Medal for 2015 by the Section on Statistics and the Environment of the American Statistical Association; and will be the Presidential Invited Speaker at the 2015 Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society annual meeting.
was selected as the 2015 Fielding School of Public Health Dean’s Distinguished Scholar and Lester Breslow Distinguished Lecturer; she also convened and led the Culture Research and Health Outcomes Panel for the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research.
was invited to be a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Evidence Based Management 2015 by the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani, India.
served on the Institute of Medicine Standing Committee on Nurse Credentialing Research and the IOM Committee for the Evaluation of the Impact of the Institute of Medicine Report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.