The Committee on Professional Ethics
Charge:
To provide a point of contact with other societies and associations in the area of professional ethics. To develop and implement a program of education sensitizing members of ASA to the ethical issues in statistical practice and in other fields in which statistics is used. To maintain and promulgate, subject to Board review and approval, the set of ASA Ethical Guidelines that describes the general view of ethics in statistical practice, and develop and maintain supplements to the Ethical Guidelines for areas of application that give an understanding of ethical statistical practice as it applies to that area (e.g., law or medicine). The Committee does not have the authority to act on, rule on, or arbitrate ethical matters. Execution of a program of professional certification is not included in this charge.
Composition:
The Committee consists of nine members, three of whom are appointed/reappointed by the President Elect each year for three year terms. One member is also appointed by the President Elect (when necessary) to serve as the Chair.
Current Committee:
Jing Cao (Chair), Professor of Statistics, Southern Methodist University
Jason Gillikin, Founder/Principal Consultant, Gillikin & Associates Inc
Nilupa Gunaratna, Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, Purdue University
Andrew Hartley, Statistical Science Director, PPD, Part of Thermo Fisher Scientific
Jennifer Park, Study Director, Committee on National Statistics, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Matthew Rotelli (Vice Chair), AVP and Head, Lilly Bioethics Program, Eli Lilly and Company
Stephanie Shipp, Interim Director and Professor, Social and Decision Analytics Division, Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia
Philip Waggoner, Director of Data Science, YouGov
Millennia Young, Biostatistics Lab Lead, NASA Johnson Space Center
Questions about the committee may be directed to Donna LaLonde (donnal@amstat.org) who is the ASA staff liaison to the committee.