Journal of Biometrics & Biostatistics

Babette Brumback

Babette Brumback
Professor and Associate Chair for Education, Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health and Health Professions, College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32610.
University of Florida

Biography

Babette Brumback, Ph.D., is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Florida. Her professional activities include serving in 2015 as Chair of the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics in Epidemiology and serving from 2011-2015 as a member of the National Institutes of Health Study Section on Clinical and Integrative Cardiovascular Sciences. She has also served as Associate Editor of Biometrics and as Statistical Editor of Psychosomatic Medicine. Her statistical research has concentrated on methods for longitudinal data analysis, causal modeling, bias adjustment, and analysis of data from complex sampling designs. She has also collaborated extensively on public health and medical studies concerning a broad array of research areas. Dr. Brumback received her PhD in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996, followed by postdoctoral training in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1996-1999.

Research Interest

Causal modeling and inference for clinical trials and observational studies, Longitudinal data analysis, Penalized spline models, Random effects models / Multilevel models, Health survey sampling design and analysis, Methods for handling missing data, Bias adjustments for observational data analysis, General biostatistical methods, Statistical methods in epidemiology, Statistical applications in public health and medicine.