The real challenge with capturing Covid deaths is because the cause of death is often assigned a comorbidity like kidney disease or heart disease, that's why many countries are now doing excess death calculations, excess mortality calculations, in the UK and United States.

Bhramar Mukherjee

Bhramar Mukherjee is an Indian-American biostatistician, data scientist, professor and researcher. She is the John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professor and the Chair of Department of Biostatistics, a professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan. She serves as the associate director for Quantitative Data Sciences at University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center. She is the Chair elect for Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) for a three-year term starting 2019.Mukherjee's research has been focused on the development and application of statistical methods in epidemiology, environmental health and disease risk assessment. She has authored over 275 articles in statistics, biostatistics, epidemiology and medical Journals. She has led several federally funded grants as a principal investigator. Her focus has been to integrate diverse data sources for efficient inference.Mukherjee is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. In 2016, she was awarded the Gertrude Cox Award by the Washington Statistical Society.

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