Donna Spiegelman, ScD

Donna Spiegelman was appointed the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health in 2018. As one of the few people in the world with a joint doctorate in biostatistics and epidemiology, she can freely speak the languages of both disciplines and switch between these two professional cultures, playing the role of interlocutor for either. Her research is motivated by problems which arise in epidemiology and require biostatistical settlement. In particular, but by no means exclusively, she has focused on methods for study design and data analysis which reduce bias in estimation and inference due to measurement error or misclassification in the exposure variable. A particular current interest is risk-based monitoring of multi-center investigations to enhance quality and prevent fraud.

She has extensive experience in troubleshooting and solving methodological issues that arise in longitudinal investigations, in clinical trials, and in large scale public health effectiveness evaluations.

Before coming to Yale in 2018, Dr. Spiegelman played dynamic roles as professor, mentor, and expert statistician at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for nearly 30 years. She was the recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award and recently the recipient of the Committee on the Advancement of Women Faculty Mentoring Award.