Dr. Nandita Mitra

Biography

Nandita Mitra is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Mitra's primary research interests include design analysis of observational studies, causal inference, and statistical approaches for cost-effectiveness analysis. She has developed doubly robust approaches for estimating cost-effectiveness measures and nonparametric influence function-based instrumental variable estimators for censored outcomes. Dr. Mitra works collaboratively with investigators in oncology, health policy, and health economics, serving as a lead statistician on studies of comparative cost-effectiveness of competing therapies using large observational databases. She is the Co-Director of the Center for Causal Inference, Chair of the Budget & Finance Committee of the International Biometrics Society, Chair of the Statistics in Epidemiology Section of the American Statistical Association, and Secretary of the Society for Causal Inference. Dr. Mitra has received the American Statistical Association Mentorship Award and is an Editor-in-Chief for Observational Studies, as well as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

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