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Lance A. Waller is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health. He holds a PhD in Operations Research from Cornell University and has been a prominent figure in public health statistics. Dr. Waller co-chairs the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics and serves on the US Census Bureau's Scientific Advisory Committee. His research focuses on spatial statistical methods applied to environmental health, epidemiology, and disease ecology. He is co-author of the textbook Applied Spatial Statistics for Public Health Data (2004).
Education: PhD (Operations Research, Cornell University, 1991), MS (Cornell University), BS (Mathematics, New Mexico State University, 1986).
- Research Interests: Spatial analysis, disease surveillance, environmental justice, statistical modeling, and opioid mortality trends.
- Affiliations: Graduate faculty in Environmental Health Sciences and Population Biology at Emory; Independent Advisory Committee for Global Burden of Disease.
Recent work includes studies on opioid overdose mortality patterns, household air pollution interventions, and spatial epidemiology of infectious diseases. He advocates for rigorous reproducibility in data science and collaborates globally on public health challenges.
