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Adam Szpiro is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Washington, serving as Chair of the Department since 2009. He earned his PhD and ScM in Applied Mathematics from Brown University (1999 and 1994) and a BA in Mathematics from UC San Diego (1993). His research focuses on environmental and spatial statistics, particularly in exposure modeling and epidemiological methods. He leads major projects such as the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (MESA Air) and the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) consortium.
Key research interests include spatio-temporal exposure modeling, machine learning for environmental data, and statistical methods for analyzing mixtures of pollutants. He has pioneered techniques to address measurement error and unmeasured confounding in environmental health studies.
Notable collaborations include randomized trials like the Gates Foundation-funded DO ART trial (improving HIV treatment delivery) and NIH-funded Deliver Health and Lotto-to-Link trials. He also contributed to the Duwamish Air Improvement Study for Youth (DAISY) and studies on greenness effects in urban environments.
Awards include recognition for methodological work, including the 2018 Rothman Epidemiology Prize runner-up. Prior to academia, he worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on national security-related modeling (1999–2006).
