Nandita Mitra
Nandita Mitra is an American biostatistician, and a professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.[1] Her research topics include causal inference, health economics and cost-effectiveness analysis, difference in differences estimation, and statistical applications in public health and cancer research.[2] She is editor-in-chief of Observational Studies.[3]
Education and career[edit]
Mitra majored in mathematics at Brown University, graduating in 1992. After a 1996 master's degree in biostatistics at the University of California, Berkeley, she completed a PhD in biostatistics at Columbia University in 2001.[1] Her dissertation, Analyzing Data From Non-Randomized Studies Using Propensity Score Methodology, was supervised by Daniel F. Heitjan.[4]
She became a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a faculty member at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center before moving to the University of Pennsylvania in 2005.[5]
Mitra is editor-in-chief of Observational Studies, an open-access journal published by the University of Pennsylvania.[3] She was the 2023 chair of the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics in Epidemiology.[6]
Recognition[edit]
Mitra was named as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2019.[7]
She was the 2024 recipient of the L. Adrienne Cupples Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service in Biostatistics, given by the Boston University School of Public Health.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Nandita Mitra, Ph.D.", Our faculty, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, retrieved 2024-05-25
- ^ a b Penn Professor Nandita Mitra Wins 2024 Cupples Award, Boston University, April 5, 2024, retrieved 2024-05-25
- ^ a b Observational Studies Journal Information, University of Pennsylvania Press, retrieved 2024-05-25
- ^ Nandita Mitra at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Current Lab Members", Mitra Lab, retrieved 2024-05-25
- ^ "Officers", Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2024-05-25
- ^ Fellows, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2024-05-25
External links[edit]
- Mitra Lab
- Nandita Mitra publications indexed by Google Scholar
