Anarina Murillo

Anarina Murillo, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics on the Teaching Scholar Track at Brown University’s Department of Biostatistics. She holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Arizona State University. Her career includes a NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Nutrition Obesity Research Center and Visiting Faculty appointments at NYU’s Global Public Health School. She has extensive experience leading clinical research collaborations with Advance-CTR, Hasbro Children’s Hospital, and Women & Infants Hospital.

Her research focuses on health disparities, chronic disease epidemiology, and implementation science. Methodologically, she specializes in mathematical modeling of public health interventions, measurement error correction in nutrition studies, and big data analytics. She designs curricula integrating data science principles across undergraduate and graduate education.

Key awards include the NIH NHLBI PRIDE RISE Fellowship (2020) and University of Pennsylvania’s CICADA Scholars Program (2022). Her work bridges statistical rigor with practical healthcare challenges, emphasizing equity in clinical trial design and community-based interventions.

Her recent publications explore opioid analgesia education for pediatric trainees, infant dietary interventions to prevent obesity, and modeling SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics. She collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to address systemic barriers in healthcare access and provider training.