Laura F. White
Council Member
Laura F. White is Professor of Biostatistics at Boston University
School of Public Health. Her research focuses in areas of application
within infectious disease and substance use disorders. She has an NIH
career award to develop methods to develop statistical methods to
better understand the transmission dynamics of TB and COVID-19 and the
burden of these diseases and substance use disorders. She is also an
active collaborative biostatistician, part of the Boston/Providence
Center for AIDS Research and works on several projects in collaboration
with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. At Boston University,
she co-directs the graduate program in Biostatistics and is the co-PI of
an NIH sponsored training grant for pre-doctoral students. She serves on
the steering committee of the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and
Computational Science and Engineering and has been actively involved in
advising BU’s COVID-19 response. Nationally she is on the steering
committee of the NIH sponsored Modeling Infectious Diseases Agent Study
(MIDAS) consortium of infectious disease modelers. Dr. White is passionate
about using rigorous statistical methods to better understand problems of
important public health interest and training the next generation of data
scientists to be strong collaborators and contributors to public health
practice.
