Dr. Corwin Zigler

Biography

Corwin (Cory) Zigler joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 2018, sharing joint appointments in the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences and the Department of Women’s Health at Dell Medical School. Before joining UT, he was faculty in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Zigler currently serves as an associate editor for the journals Biometrics and Biostatistics and is heavily involved in elected positions with the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association. He has received research funding from organizations such as the NIH, EPA, and the Health Effects Institute. His career awards include the 2010 Carolbeth Korn Prize for outstanding graduating student from UCLA School of Public Health and the 2012 Young Investigator Award from the Statistics Epidemiology Section of the American Statistical Association. In 2019, he received the Rothman Prize for a paper published in Epidemiology. Zigler's research is motivated by problems in public health epidemiology, with specific areas of interest including the development of statistical methods for causal inference, mediation analysis, model uncertainty, treatment effect heterogeneity, and spatial statistics, among others.

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