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Andrew B Lawson (Biostatistician)
Andrew Booth Lawson is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). His main research focus is spatial biostatistics, in particular Bayesian disease mapping and spatial epidemiology. He was educated at Robert Gordons' College in Aberdeen, Scotland, gained a honours degree in Geography at University of Aberdeen  and a MSc degree at Queens University, Kingston, Canada. He gained an MPhil degree on Mathematical Environmental modeling from University of Leeds in 1987 and a PhD degree in Spatial Statistics from the University of St Andrews in 1991.

Following a period working in industry as a statistician in preclinical research and public health management, he joined the University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland as a statistics lecturer in 1985. In 1998 he moved to the Mathematical Sciences department in the University of Aberdeen as senior lecturer and subsequently became Reader there.

In 2002, he was appointed full professor of Biostatistics in the department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina and became Division Director for Biostatistics (2003 - 2008). In 2008 he moved to the (now) Department of Public Health Sciences as a tenured full Professor of Biostatistics. He became an MUSC Eminent Scholar in 2010 and an MUSC Distinguished University Professor in 2015.

Publications and other academic activities
He is the author of over 170 peer reviewed papers in the areas of spatial Biostatistics, spatial epidemiology and disease mapping. A short list can be found here. He is also the author and editor of a range of books in the area of spatial epidemiology          , and Bayesian Biostatistics. Besides acting as an Associate Editor for Statistics in Medicine, Environmetrics and Statistical Methods in Medical Research, he is also the chief founding editor of the Elsevier journal Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. He is a long standing Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a CStat, formerly a Fellow of the Institute of Statisticians (FIS) and was elected to Fellowship of the American Statistical Association in 2010 and is now a Life Fellow (2019).