About
Amita Manatunga is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health. With a career spanning over three decades, she has made significant contributions to multivariate survival analysis, agreement assessment, and clinical research in mental health, reproductive health, and renal diseases.
- PhD in Statistics, University of Rochester
- MA in Statistics, University of Rochester
- MSc in Statistics, Purdue University
- BSc (First Class Honors), University of Colombo
Her methodological research focuses on statistical modeling for survival data and high-dimensional biomedical datasets, with applications in environmental epidemiology, depression identification, and nuclear medicine imaging. She has taught graduate-level courses in survival analysis, linear models, and high-dimensional data analysis, while also directing biostatistics training for physicians.
Recent publications highlight her work in functional data analysis, latent class modeling, and pooled biomarker analysis, primarily applied to cardiovascular and renal studies. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and has received Emory's University-Level Teaching Awards. Her collaborations span NIH-funded clinical research, particularly through the Emory University General Clinical Research Center.
- Fellow, American Statistical Association
- Teaching Awards, Emory University
- AAAS Fellow
- NIH Study Section Participation
