Andrea Austin

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I completed my PhD in Biostatistics at Brown University almost two years ago. My thesis was entitled “Covariate Defined Latent Space Models for Social Networks with Extensions to Biomolecular Pathways”. It was an amazing experience to do a PhD at Brown.

Since then, I taught statistics for a year at SUNY Fredonia, but decided to go back into research. Currently, I am a research scientist at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. I lead and contribute to manuscripts, lead the analytic team in defining research questions, developing analytic plans, and overseeing analyses and end products. It has been handy that my undergraduate degree was in math; for example, early in my position I was deriving measures to model economic competition that relate to healthcare markets that ended up in a paper. So my SMC degree is still coming in handy!

I am still involved with projects incorporating my dissertation topic, social networks, and I am encouraged to pose and work on new research questions that I come up with as pertains to the world of health policy and clinical practice. I also take an active mentor role, mentoring various students and programmers in the learning and implementation of statistics.