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Lance A. Waller is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. He holds a joint appointment in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health and serves on graduate faculties for Environmental Health Sciences and the Population Biology, Evolution, and Ecology program. His research focuses on spatial statistics applied to public health, environmental justice, neurology, and disease ecology, with over 25 years of publications including the seminal text Applied Spatial Statistics for Public Health Data (2004, Wiley).
- Education: B.S. in Mathematics (New Mexico State University, 1986), Ph.D. in Operations Research (Cornell University, 1991)
- Leadership Roles: Co-chair of U.S. National Academy of Science's Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, member of US Census Bureau's Scientific Advisory Committee (second term)
His methodological work spans spatial modeling, disease surveillance, and environmental health statistics. Recent research includes:
- Household air pollution effects on cardiovascular outcomes
- Opioid mortality spatiotemporal mapping
- Vector density changes with clean cooking interventions
- Statistical frameworks for epidemic tracking
- Multi-scale data integration for health disparities
He has developed innovative Berkeson error models for population uncertainty and agent-based spatiotemporal frameworks for disease ecology. His work appears in top journals across biostatistics, ecology, and public health, with key contributions to statistical methodology for epidemiology.
