Holly Shulman

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Holly B. Shulman is an American statistician in the Division of Reproductive Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a developer of the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System for the CDC, [1] and the former president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics. [2] As well as her work on the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, her publications include highly cited work on abortion-related deaths.

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Early life and education

Shulman is originally from Atlanta, Georgia, where she was an honors student in mathematics. Her interest in statistics began in a high school mathematics summer program, part of the Georgia Governor's Honors Program. She majored in mathematics at Georgia Tech, and went on to do a master's degree in statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. [1]

Career and later life

Shulman has worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for over 35 years. [1] She was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics for 1999, [2] and chaired the American Statistical Association's Committee on Women in Statistics in 2000. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Holly Shulman", A statistician's life: Celebrating women in statistics, AmStat News, American Statistical Association, March 1, 2022, retrieved 2023-12-06
  2. 1 2 Presidents 1971–2020 (PDF), Caucus for Women in Statistics, retrieved 2023-12-06