COPSS-NISS Leadership Webinar: Leadership at the Intersection of Causal Inference and Interdisciplinarity

Dr. Mark van der Laan is the Jiann-Ping Hsu/Karl E. Peace Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has made contributions to survival analysis, semiparametric statistics, multiple testing, and causal inference. He also developed the targeted maximum likelihood methodology and general theory for super learning. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Causal Inference and the International Journal of Biostatistics. He has authored 4 books on Targeted Learning, censored data and multiple testing, authored over 300 publications, and graduated over 50 Ph.D students. He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2005, the Mortimer Spiegelman Award in 2004, and the van Dantzig Award in 2005. View Profile: Mark van der Laan | Berkeley Public Health

Elizabeth A. Stuart, PhD, is the Frank Hurley and Catharine Dorrier Chair and Bloomberg Professor of American Health in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with joint appointments in the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Health Policy and Management.  She was previously Executive Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at the School. She received her PhD in Statistics from Harvard University in 2004.  Her research interests are in design and analysis approaches for estimating causal effects in experimental and non-experimental studies, including questions around the external validity of randomized trials and the internal validity of non-experimental studies, as well as methods for combining data sources to assess treatment effect heterogeneity and methods for evidence synthesis.  She has published over 350 papers and has received research funding for her work from the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Education Sciences, the WT Grant Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health and has served on advisory panels for the US Department of Education, and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute.  She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, received the mid-career award from the Health Policy Statistics Section of the ASA, the Gertrude Cox Award for applied statistics, Harvard University’s Myrto Lefkopoulou Award for excellence in Biostatistics, and the Society for Epidemiologic Research Marshall Joffe Epidemiologic Methods award. She currently serves on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committee on National Statistics and co-chairs NASEM's Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics.View Profile: Elizabeth Stuart | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health