Francesca Dominici, Ph.D. is the Faculty Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative and the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population, and Data Science at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and of the International Society of Mathematical Statistics. She is an expert in causal inference, machine learning, and Bayesian statistics. She leads an interdisciplinary group of scientists with the goal of addressing important questions in environmental health science and climate change. Dominici has provided the scientific community and policymakers with robust evidence on the adverse health effects of air pollution and climate change.
Dominici has published more than 250 peer-reviewed publications and was recognized in Thomson Reuter’s 2019 list of the most highly cited researchers–ranking in the top 1% of cited scientists in her field. She is an elected Member of the National Academy of Medicine and of the International Mathematical Statistics. Her work has been covered by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, BBC, The Guardian, CNN, and NPR.
In April 2020 she was awarded the Karl E. Peace Award for Outstanding Statistical Contributions for the Betterment of Society. Her work on the Johns Hopkins University Committee on the Status of Women earned her the campus Diversity Recognition Award in 2009. At the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, she has led the Committee for the Advancement of Women Faculty.