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Donna Spiegelman is a biostatistician and epidemiologist who works at the interface between the two fields as a methodologist, applying statistical solutions to address potential biases in epidemiologic studies. She has wide-ranging interests, from methods for statistical corrections for exposure measurement error, to environmental and nutritional epidemiology. She has held faculty appointments since 1992 – in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public until she moved to Biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health. She is an unusually prolific scientist with over 700 publications and more than 55,000 citations. She received the prestigious NIH Director’s Pioneer Award in 2015 and became the Director of the Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science at Yale in 2018. https://prod.admin.profile.yale.edu/Profiles/Cv/user/donna_spiegelman

Her career in public health began in the late 1970s as a SAS programmer in the Occupational Health Program in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard SPH. After deciding to return for a graduate degree, she was admitted in both the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at HSPH. She wrote her dissertation on the design and analysis of epidemiologic investigations in the presence of errors in the measurement and classification of the exposure variable and received her PhD in 1989. She has pursued this interest in measurement error throughout her career, receiving a grant to study statistical methods to account for exposure uncertainty in environmental epidemiology in 2018. As a post-doctoral fellow at the Channing Laboratory at Harvard Medical School in the early 1990s, she began a decades long collaboration with the PIs of the Nurses’ Health Study. As senior biostatistician on that project, she has co-authored many dozens of high impact publications in nutritional epidemiology; her most heavily cited articles are papers on the health benefits of raw fruits and vegetables, particularly on reducing the risk of coronary heart disease.

She has two daughters and lives on the beach near New Haven, CT.