Sybil L Crawford

Sybil L. Crawford, PhD, is a Professor at the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing within UMass Chan Medical School. With over 30 years of experience in women's health research, her work focuses on menopause, body composition, hormone therapy, and racial/ethnic health disparities. She leads statistical teams for the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) and collaborates on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and medication safety studies.

• Education: PhD (Statistics, 1988), MS (Statistics, 1985), BS (Economics, 1983) from Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests span women's health, applied statistics, and interdisciplinary collaborations:

• Menopause-related symptom analysis
• Hormonal and metabolic biomarkers
• Longitudinal data modeling
• Health disparities in aging populations
• Vaccine hesitancy interventions

Scientific Awards include:

• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
• North American Menopause Society Best Paper Awards
• Technometrics Frank Wilcoxon Prize

Grants & Projects feature:

• NIH/NIA-funded SWAN-Aging Coordinating Center (2020-2024)
• NIH-funded D-PRESCRIBE-AD (2021-2025) for Alzheimer's care
• NIH-funded Trusted Messengers (2021-2024) for vaccine promotion