Kendra Plourde

Kendra Plourde is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health, joining in 2022. She earned her PhD in Biostatistics from Boston University (2020) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale. Her methodological research focuses on designing and analyzing observational studies and randomized trials with correlated data, including longitudinal studies, cluster randomized and stepped wedge designs, and clinical trials with multivariate outcomes. Collaborative research spans Alzheimer's disease, aging, and social disadvantage in health disparities.

Her publications (15+ since 2017) address stepped wedge trials, cognitive decline, aging, liver-brain interactions, and environmental health. She contributes to public health data science through the Yale Center for Analytical Sciences and Yale Program on Aging. Her work often utilizes the Framingham Heart Study to explore cardiovascular-neurological links and metabolic syndrome impacts on aging.

Key methodological innovations include power analyses for multivariate outcomes, social disadvantage indices, and survival bias correction in joint models. She collaborates with experts like Fan Li (Yale) and Thomas M. Gill (Yale) on National Institutes of Health-funded projects. Her work informs health policy via analyses of hospital readmissions and nursing home disaster preparedness.