Laura Forastiere

Laura Forastiere is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health and affiliated faculty at the Yale Institute for Global Health. Her research focuses on causal inference methods for complex clustered and network data, addressing challenges in global health, environmental health, and social epidemiology.

• Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Florence (2015)
• Postdoctoral training at Harvard University
• Former Postdoctoral Associate at Yale Institute for Network Science

Research domains include:

• Methodological development for causal inference under network interference
• Behavioral interventions leveraging social networks
• Applications in low/middle-income countries (malaria, HIV, maternal/child health)
• Environmental exposure modeling (PM2.5, pollution transport)

Her 15 most recent publications (2023-2025) span journals in biostatistics, epidemiology, and network science. Key themes involve network interference modeling (6/15), global health applications (5/15), and environmental health impacts (3/15).

• Scientific awards: Yale Global Health Spark Award (2023), Young Protagonist Researchers (2016)
• Collaborations: Yale Institute for Network Science, Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science
• Active in public health practice across Africa and Latin America