Meet the 2025 Winner: Ching-Ying Huang, MSc
Ching-Ying (Jessica) Huang completed her Master’s degree in Biostatistics from the University of Connecticut, with a concentration in quantitative methods and complex data manipulation. She is currently a trainee and data analyst in the Lai Lab within the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her work focuses on the statistical analysis of high-dimensional microbiome data to investigate the impact of environmental exposures on microbial community structure and function in human populations.
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Margaret Becklake (May 27, 1922-October 17, 2018) grew up and studied medicine in South Africa, and, after postgraduate training in London, returned to her native country to work at the University of the Witwatersrand and the Miner’s Silicosis Bureau, where she studied the effects of dust inhalation on workers in the gold mines. In 1957 she moved to Montréal where worked at McGill University in the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, the Montreal Chest Hospital, and the Royal Victoria Hospital. Her widely published research on occupational lung disease and both international and socioeconomic lung health disparities brought her international recognition. She received many awards including the Distinguished Achievement Award of the American Thoracic Society. She started a research capacity building program that trained and nurtured young African investigators, a forerunner to the ATS MECOR Program, and she served on the MECOR faculty. Dr. Becklake was active in the EOPH assembly and was a mentor and role model to researchers and clinicians around the world.
The Margaret Becklake award will be given annually for the best EOPH abstract involving work done in low and/or middle-income countries or addressing international and/or socioeconomic health disparities. The awardee will be selected by the EOPH Program Committee Chair and Chair-Elect.