Role
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative.
Bio
After graduating in Statistics from Sapienza University of Rome in 1993, she earned her PhD from the University of Padua in 1997. After moving to the United States, she took up a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she continued her academic career until being appointed Full Professor in the Department of Biostatistics in 2007.
She was subsequently appointed to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. At Cambridge University, she holds the Clarence James Gamble Chair and is the founding director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative. She is also an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the International Society of Mathematical Statistics.
His research focuses on the development of statistical methodologies, causal inference, machine learning, and data science for analyzing massive, heterogeneous databases. He particularly studies Medicare and SEER-Medicare data, AI , and heterogeneous sources applied to public health, climate change, environmental science, cancer research, and health policy.
Her research on air pollution has impacted US air quality policies, contributing to more stringent environmental standards. She is the founder and principal investigator of the National Studies on Air Pollution and Health Group (NSAPH) and co-director of the CAFÉ climate change research center. In 2024, she was included in the prestigious TIME100 Health list.