Regina Loewenstein

Regina L. Loewenstein (February 10, 1916 – May 16, 1999)^[1] was an American public health statistician who worked as a lecturer in the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.^[2]

Life

Loewenstein was born on February 10, 1916.^[3] She graduated from Barnard College in 1936,^[4] and earned a master's degree in mathematics from Columbia University in 1937, with the master's thesis The elliptic functions of Legendre and Jacobi.^[5]

In 1948, she was chief of the operations department of the Study of Child Health Services of the American Academy of Pediatrics.^[6] Beginning in the late 1940s, she worked with Gilbert Wheeler Beebe as a statistics researcher in the Medical Follow-up Agency of the National Research Council (NRC),^[7] and by 1952 she was listed as chief of the statistics section of the Committee on Veterans Medical Problems of the NRC,^[8] before later returning to Columbia as a faculty member.^[2]

In 1971, she helped found the Caucus for Women in Statistics of the American Statistical Association, serving as one of its four original executive committee members.^[9] She was also active for many years in the American Public Health Association.^[8][10]

Recognition

Loewenstein was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1976.^[11] Columbia University offers a student prize, the Regina Loewenstein Prize for Academic Excellence in Health Policy and Management, named in her honor.