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The University of Kentucky’s College of Public Health welcomes Melody S. Goodman, PhD Professor, in the Department of Biostatistics at the New York University School of Public Health.
“DEVELOPING PATHWAYS TO INCREASE RACIAL/ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN BIOSTATISTICS AND DATA SCIENCE”
Dr. Goodman received her B.S. summa cum laude in applied mathematics-statistics and economics (double major) from Stony Brook University. She received her M.S. in biostatistics from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and her Ph.D. from the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University with minors in theoretical statistics and the social determinants of health disparities.
She is the Vice Dean for Research, Professor of Biostatistics, and Director of the Center for Anti-racism, Social Justice & Public Health, at New York University School of Global Public Health. She has over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and two books (2018 Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group); 1) Public Health Research Methods for Partnerships and Practice and 2) Biostatistics for Clinical and Public Health Research.
Dr. Goodman is a biostatistician and research methodologist. Her research interest is on identifying origins of health inequities and developing, as necessary, evidence-based primary prevention strategies to reduce these health inequities. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (2021) and the inaugural recipient of the societal impact award from the Caucus for Women in Statistics (2021).
