Charity Morgan

Charity Morgan is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), School of Public Health. She holds academic ranks including Professor (since 2012), Associate Professor (2012–2023), and Assistant Professor (2012–2017). She has served as Vice Chair of Teaching since 2021. Her education includes a PhD in Statistics from Harvard University.

Her research focuses on biostatistical methods applied to cardiovascular diseases, kidney dysfunction, and neurological disorders. Key areas include heart failure (HFrEF/HFpEF), chronic kidney disease (CKD), multiple sclerosis, and post-stroke pain. She leads studies on drug efficacy, patient outcomes, and clinical trial designs, often using large-scale datasets from VA healthcare systems and observational cohorts.

Her teaching roles include instructing BST630: Estimation & Inference. She mentors doctoral students in biostatistics, with recent advisees including Lingling Wang and Kelsey M. Maclin. Her work has been published in high-impact journals like *The Lancet Neurology*, *American Journal of Medicine*, and *Journal of Cardiac Failure*.

Her contributions span over 150 peer-reviewed articles, emphasizing methodological rigor in clinical research. She collaborates on trials addressing disease-modifying therapies, exercise interventions, and biomarker analysis. Her research aims to improve evidence-based guidelines for chronic disease management.