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Causal Inference and Implementation

YSPH Biostatistics faculty are world leaders in development and application of new statistical methodologies for causal inference, the challenge of making valid cause-and-effect claims from messy, real-world data. Our faculty have developed statistical methods to solve important methodological problems, such as confounding bias, censoring, selection bias, measurement error, non-compliance, mediating variables and network interference and spillover. From randomized trials to observational studies to methods for implementation and prevention science, the Biostatistics department catalyzes faster translation of biostatistical methods research into public health practice worldwide

Faculty of Interest

  • Associate Professor of Biostatistics; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Social Networking
    • Observational Study
    • HIV
    • Health Plan Implementation
    • Global Health
    • Clinical Trial
    • Causality
    • Behavioral Sciences
    • Biostatistics
  • Senior Research Scientist in Biostatistics; Director of Biostatistics in Psychiatry

    Research Interests
    • Research Design
    • Risk Assessment
    • Psychiatry
    • Models, Statistical
    • Biostatistics
  • Research Scientist in Biostatistics (CMIPS); Director, Dissemination and Implementation Science Methods (DISM) Core, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Global Health
    • Environmental Health
    • Epidemiology
    • Clinical Trials as Topic
    • Neoplasms
    • Nutritional Sciences
    • HIV
    • Translational Research, Biomedical
    • Stomach Neoplasms
  • Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

    Research Interests
    • Drug Evaluation
    • Epidemiologic Methods
    • Regression Analysis
    • Models, Statistical
    • Biostatistics
    • Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
    • Data Science
    • Communicable Diseases
  • Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

    Research Interests
    • Survival Analysis
    • Selection Bias
    • Propensity Score
    • Randomized Controlled Trial
    • Research Design
    • Mediation Analysis
    • Multilevel Analysis
    • Pragmatic Clinical Trial
    • Observational Study
    • Longitudinal Studies
    • Machine Learning
    • Cardiovascular Diseases
    • Causality
    • Comparative Effectiveness Research
    • Epidemiologic Methods
  • Assistant Professor of Biostatistics; Co-Training Director, Health Informatics MS

    Research Interests
    • Computer Simulation
    • Computational Biology
    • Biostatistics
    • Informatics
    • Neurosciences
  • Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics and Senior Research Scientist of Biostatistics

    Research Interests
    • Patient Preference
    • Pragmatic Clinical Trials as Topic
    • Clinical Trials as Topic
    • Aging
    • Biostatistics
  • Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Biostatistics; Director, Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS); Professor of Statistics and Data Science; Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine); Assistant Director, Global Oncology, Yale Cancer Center

    Research Interests
    • Biostatistics
    • Cardiovascular Diseases
    • Clinical Trial
    • Global Health
    • Health Plan Implementation
    • Epidemiologic Methods
    • HIV Infections
    • Implementation Science
    • Maternal Mortality
    • Obesity
  • Professor of Biostatistics

    Research Interests
    • Computational Biology
    • Data Science
    • Biostatistics
    • Electronic Health Records
    • Genetics
    • Genomics
    • Public Health
    • Psychiatry
    • Informatics
    • Machine Learning
    • Mental Health
    • Longitudinal Studies
    • Multiomics
    • Neurosciences
    • Single-Cell Analysis
  • Professor of Biostatistics

    Research Interests
    • Biostatistics
    • Algorithms
    • Disorders of Environmental Origin
    • Eye Diseases
    • Pregnancy Complications
    • Probability
    • Statistics as Topic
    • Stochastic Processes
    • Statistical Distributions
    • Virus Diseases
  • Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

    Research Interests
    • Precision Medicine
    • Randomized Controlled Trial
    • Research Design
    • Implementation Science
    • Epidemiologic Methods
    • Biostatistics
    • Dimensional Measurement Accuracy
    • Clinical Trial