Professor Bhramar Mukherjee is currently appointed as Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) . Professor Mukherjee serves as the inaugural Senior Associate  Dean of Public Health Data Science and Data Equity at YSPH. She holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Statistics and Data Science and is affiliated with the MacMillan Center and the Institute for the Foundations of Data Science. She serves on the Yale Cancer Center Director’s cabinet. Prior to joining Yale University, she served as Chair of the Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan.

Dr. Mukherjee’s research interests span statistical methods for analyzing electronic health records, gene-environment interaction studies, data integration, data equity, shrinkage estimation, and the analysis of environmental mixtures. Collaboratively, she contributes to areas such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, reproductive health, exposure science, and environmental epidemiology. With over 390 publications in statistics, biostatistics, medicine, and public health, Professor Mukherjee is globally recognised for her research contributions in integrating genetic, environmental and health outcome data. She has served as the Principal Investigator on methodology grants funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States. 

As a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Mukherjee has received numerous awards for her outstanding scholarship, service, and teaching. These include John D. Kalbfleisch Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics at University of Michigan, the Gertrude Cox award, the Adrienne Cupples Award, the Janet Norwood award, the Sarah Goddard Power award, the Karl E Peace Award, the Jerry Sacks Award, and the Marvin Zelen Statistical Leadership Award. In 2022 she was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine. Born in Kolkata, India, Dr. Mukherjee celebrates her hyphenated identity across the two continents and is a passionate advocate for global health equity. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she and her team developed timely nowcasting models and apps informing policymaking in India. This work received worldwide media attention and was covered by major media outlets like Reuters, BBC, NPR, NYT, WSJ, Der Spiegel, Australian National Radio, and the Times of India. She has served on several NASEM consensus study committees, including on the Committee on the Reassessment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry.