Donna Spiegelman

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Donna Spiegelman is a biostatistician and epidemiologist who works at the interface between the two fields as a methodologist, applying statistical solutions to address potential biases in epidemiologic studies. [1]

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Area of work

Spiegelman's area of work includes methods for statistical corrections for exposure measurement error, environmental and nutritional epidemiology, HIV/AIDS epidemiology, prevention of cervical cancer and cardiometabolic diseases. [2] [3] Since 2018, Spiegelman's work has been oriented towards the methods for, and the practice of, implementation and prevention science. [4] [5] [6]

Career

Since 1992 Spiegelman has held faculty appointments at the Tufts University School of Medicine, and in the Departments of  Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Nutrition and Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public. [7] In 2018 she moved to Biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health. She received the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award in 2014, to advance the emerging field of implementation science to promote the global and domestic health agenda by the development and dissemination of new methods for implementation science. In 2018 became the inaugural Director of the Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science at Yale. [8]

Spiegelman began her career in public health began in the late 1970s as a statistical analyst in the Occupational Health Program in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). After deciding to return for a graduate degree, she was admitted to both the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at HSPH.  She wrote her dissertation on the design and analysis of epidemiologic investigations [9] in the presence of errors in the measurement and classification of the exposure variable and received her Sc.D. in 1989.  In 1992, she returned to Harvard to become Assistant Professor of Epidemiologic Methods, and by 2001, she was promoted to full Professor with tenure, in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and later joined the Departments of Nutrition and Global Health at Harvard as well. In 2018, after retiring from Harvard as Professor Emerita of Epidemiologic Methods in the Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Nutrition and Global Health, she became Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Biostatistics and inaugural director of Yale’s Center on Methods for Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS) CMIPS has grown to include five primary faculty and an increasing number of trainees, research scientists, and graduate students. [10] With the recent establishment of the Implementation Science Methods Pathway with the Masters of Science and Ph.D. programs in the Department of Biostatistics at Yale, interest and expertise in implementation science methods will further advance. [11]

Spiegelman has pursued this interest in measurement error throughout her career, holding two longstanding grants from the National Institutes of Health to study statistical methods to account for exposure uncertainty in environmental epidemiology and in cancer epidemiology, since in 2004. [12] [13] As a post-doctoral fellow at the Channing Laboratory at Harvard Medical School in the early 1990s, she began a decades long collaboration with the Principal Investigators of the Nurses’ Health Studies and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. [14] [15]

Spiegelman was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2001. She was awarded Reviewer of the Year, American Journal of Public Health’s Editor’s Choice Award in 2017. [16] [17] She received Mentoring Award from the Committee on the Advancement of Women Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in 2018, along with the Distinguished Service Award from the Department of Epidemiology. [18]

Community services

Spiegelman has been engaged in Jewish peace advocacy throughout her adult life. In 2002, she co-founded the U.S. Jewish peace organization, Brit Tzedek v’Shalom, which was integrated into the Jewish peace lobby, JStreet, in 2010. [19] [20] Spiegelman played an instrumental role in this integration, which provided the community basis for the growth and impact of JStreet. [21] [22] [23] The goal of these organizations is to achieve a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, by influencing the U.S. government as American Jews to support this approach in their geopolitical interactions. [24] [25]

In 2006, she co-founded Friends of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, a 501(C)3 non-profit devoted to increasing equity and opportunity at this high school, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. [26]

Notable publications

Methods for adjusting for bias due to measurement error and misclassification

Methods for implementation and prevention science

Methods for meta-analysis and pooling projects and consortia

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References

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  5. ↑ "New Center in Implementation Science Launched with University of Malaya". medicine.yale.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  6. ↑ Fried, Fran. "Yale School of Public Health Launches Maternal Child Health Promotion Track". ysph.yale.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  7. ↑ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
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  9. ↑ "Biostatistics Dissertations". content.sph.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  10. ↑ "Donna Spiegelman designated the Bliss Professor of Biostatistics". YaleNews. 2018-07-24. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  11. ↑ Barnhart, Dale A.; Semrau, Katherine E. A.; Zigler, Corwin M.; Molina, Rose L.; Delaney, Megan Marx; Hirschhorn, Lisa R.; Spiegelman, Donna (2020-02-25). "Optimizing the development and evaluation of complex interventions: lessons learned from the BetterBirth Program and associated trial". Implementation Science Communications. 1 (1): 29. doi: 10.1186/s43058-020-00014-8 . ISSN   2662-2211. PMC   7427863 . PMID   32885188.
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  13. ↑ "New Grants and Awards". Harvard School of Public Health. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
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  19. ↑ "Brit Tzedek v'Shalom: History of the American Jewish Peace Movement". btvshalom.org. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  20. ↑ "Open Letter from American Jews -- Introduction to Brit Tzedek v'Shalom". www.peacemideast.org. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  21. ↑ "Israeli and Palestinian Peace Activists Bring their Message to the Boston Area". Melrose, MA Patch. 2012-10-01. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  22. ↑ "Wicked Local | Brookline Tab". Wicked Local. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  23. ↑ Spiegelman, Donna (2010). "Memories of Rita Arditti: How She Influenced My Life". Bridges. 15 (2): 3–7. doi:10.2979/bri.2010.15.2.3. ISSN   1046-8358. JSTOR   10.2979/bri.2010.15.2.3. S2CID   143204316.
  24. ↑ "StackPath". jstreet.org. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  25. ↑ "StackPath". jstreet.org. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  26. ↑ "Friends of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School Honors Co-Founder, Donna Spiegelman". crls.cpsd.us. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
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