Elizabeth A. Stuart is a professor of mental health, biostatistics, and health policy and management in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research involves causal inference and missing data in the statistics of mental health. She was a co-author on a study showing that post-suicide-attempt counseling can significantly reduce the risk of future suicide.[1]
Elizabeth A. Stuart | |
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| Born | September 2, 1975 Sydney, Australia |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Smith University |
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| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Mathematica Policy Research Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
Early life
editStuart was born in 1975 in Sydney, Australia to Ruth Stuart and Richard Stuart. She moved to and grew up in Laconia, New Hampshire, and attended Laconia High School, where she graduated in 1993. She played on the school's field hockey, cross-country skiing, and track teams.
Education and career
editStuart graduated from Smith College in 1997, with a mathematics major and chemistry minor.[2] She completed her Ph.D. at Harvard University in 2004, in statistics, under the supervision of Donald Rubin.[2][3] After working for two years as a researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, she joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2006.[2] In 2023, she was promoted to The Frank Hurley and Catharine Dorrier Professor and Chair of the Hopkins Biostatistics department.
Recognition
editIn 2014 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association "for outstanding contributions to research in the estimation of causal effects; for extensive efforts in the dissemination of statistical methods in education and mental health, including the development of widely used software; and for extensive service to the ASA and the profession."[4] In 2020, she was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in the Section on Statistics.[5] In 2020, she became a Bloomberg Professor of American Health.
Personal life
editStuart currently resides in Washington D.C. with her husband, Brian Doyle, and two kids: Clara Doyle and Paul Doyle. She enjoys running, hiking, and traveling.
References
edit- ^ Suicide risk falls substantially after talk therapy, Science Daily, November 24, 2014, retrieved 2016-07-19.
- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, February 20, 2016, retrieved 2016-07-19.
- ^ Elizabeth A. Stuart at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ ASA Honors 63 New Fellows (PDF), American Statistical Association, June 11, 2014, archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04, retrieved 2016-07-11.
- ^ "Mathematics People - AAAS Fellows Elected" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 68: 437.
External links
edit- Home page
- Elizabeth A. Stuart publications indexed by Google Scholar