Amy H. Herring

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Amy H. Herring
EducationB.A. English and B.S. mathematics, University of Mississippi, 1995
Sc.D, biostatistics, Harvard University, 2000
SpouseDavid B. Dunson
Scientific career
Fields Biostatistics
Institutions University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Duke University
Thesis Missing Covariates in Survival Analysis  (2000)
Doctoral advisor Joseph G. Ibrahim

Amy Helen Herring is an American biostatistician interested in longitudinal data and reproductive health. Formerly the Carol Remmer Angle Distinguished Professor of Children's Environmental Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she is now Sara & Charles Ayres Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistical Science, Global Health Institute, and Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics of Duke University. [1]

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Education and career

Herring graduated summa cum laude from the University of Mississippi in 1995, with a double major in English and mathematics. [1] She completed an Sc.D in biostatistics at Harvard University in 2000; her dissertation, supervised by Joseph G. Ibrahim, was Missing Covariates in Survival Analysis. [1] [2]

She joined the North Carolina faculty in 2000, where she became a fellow of the Carolina Population Center in 2006 and Carol Remmer Angle Distinguished Professor of Children's Environmental Health in 2015. She moved to Duke in 2017 [1] as part of a hiring initiative to expand Duke's faculty in the quantitative sciences. [3]

Research

Herring has authored over 275 papers with a focus on statistical methods for correlated data, including longitudinal data and mixed-scale multivariate data. She collaborates extensively with researchers in reproductive, environmental, and global health.

In 2013, a longitudinal study led by Herring and colleagues and published in the British Medical Journal compared the dates of childbirth and of first intercourse reported in separate questions by a sample of American women, and determined that according to this data one out of every 200 women in the US reported dates consistent with giving virgin birth. Herring stated that she found it "highly unlikely" that these women believed themselves to be virgins at the time of their children's births, and suggested that the result might instead be a combination of unintentional inaccuracies by the subjects and of respondents being unwilling to admit to having intercourse. [4] [5]

Awards and honors

In 2010, Herring was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. [6] She won the Gertrude M. Cox Award for outstanding contributions to applied statistics in 2012. [7] In the same year, the American Public Health Association gave her their Mortimer Spiegelman Award. [8] She won the 2018 Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award from Harvard University Department of Biostatistics [9] and the 2019 Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences from the University of Alabama-Birmingham. [10]

She has provided extensive service to the profession, serving as President of the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society in 2011, as a Director on the executive board of the International Biometric Society 2021–2024, as Executive Secretary of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) 2016–2018, and on the ISBA Board 2013–2015; she has also held numerous leadership positions in the American Statistical Association including as Chair-Elect of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (2021) and as Chair of the Biometrics Section (2017). [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Curriculum vitae, September 2017, retrieved 2021-08-12
  2. ↑ Amy H. Herring at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ "A quantitative investment in promoting the sciences at Duke: Collaborations, new hires are part of strategic plan's goal for raising university's stature in the sciences", Duke Today, September 26, 2017
  4. ↑ James, Susan Donaldson (December 18, 2013), "'Strange Nativities': Scientists Find 45 'Virgin Births' (and Some Virgin Fathers)", ABC News
  5. ↑ Boesveld, Sarah (December 17, 2013), "One in two hundred US women in study report having virgin births — but researchers think it's no miracle", National Post
  6. ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2017-11-02
  7. ↑ Herring honored with statistics award, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, June 5, 2012, retrieved 2017-11-02
  8. ↑ Herring presented with APHA's distinguished Spiegelman Award, October 31, 2012, retrieved 2017-11-02
  9. ↑ Amy Herring Receives Lagakos Alumni Award, October 15, 2018, retrieved 2021-08-12
  10. ↑ Amy Herring Receives Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in Statistical Sciences, September 19, 2019, retrieved 2021-08-12
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