The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar Series presents this talk by Anarina Murillo, PhD, Senior Biostatistician Center for Statistical Sciences, School of Public Health Brown University.

Anarina Murillo, PhD, is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at New York University School of Global Public Health.

Prior to NYU, she was an Assistant Professor (Research) in pediatrics jointly affiliated with the Warren Alpert Medical School and School of Public Health at Brown University. She earned her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics with a concentration in Statistics at Arizona State University and completed an NIH T32 postdoctoral fellowship in statistical genetics and obesity at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Her research interests are in statistical applications in obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, health disparities, social determinants of health, and epidemiology. Her methodological interests are in the intersection of statistical inference, modeling, and simulation studies for the prediction of health outcomes and for guiding the design of evidence-based interventions.

For more information, please email nanderson@drexel.edu.