Statistics Task Force

The Statistics Task Force closely partners with each of the funded studies, providing support and guidance on statistical aspects, reviewing study protocols to ensure effective design, analysis, and data interpretation. They address major questions like adaptive design and AI, offering recommendations to Health Care by Food leadership. They also collaborate with the Value Assessment task force on risk prediction and participant selection, and create checklists for each touchpoint, including a customized protocol review form.

Ken Cheung

Ken Cheung, PhD
Ken Cheung Bio

Andrea Troxel

Andrea Troxel, ScD
Andrea Troxel Bio

Hamsa Bastani

Hamsa Bastani, PhD
Hamsa Bastani Bio

EJ Cheon

EJ Cheon

Common Measures for AHA Health Care by Food Funded Studies

Central to the American Heart Association's Health Care by Food  initiative is the integration of evidence-based practices and measurable outcomes. To track progress and impact, the initiative developed a set of Common Measures, a standardized set of metrics designed to facilitate the comparison of data across food is medicine research.

Shared metrics are vital for pooling data across studies, to produce more generalizable insights and to allow for more comparability between studies, moving us toward a better understanding of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions.

To improve fidelity for merging data sets and facilitating use of the common measures, an accompanying code book (XLSX file) was designed and is available for use.

Common Measures