Garnet Larae Anderson is an American biostatistician, known for her research on the health risks caused by side effects of
postmenopausal hormone therapy
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT), also known as menopausal hormone therapy or postmenopausal hormone therapy, is a form of hormone therapy used to treat menopausal symptoms, symptoms associated with female menopause. These symptoms can include h ...
, and more generally as one of the leading researchers in the
Women's Health Initiative. She is a senior vice president at the
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, where she directs the Public Health Sciences Division and holds the Fred Hutch 40th Anniversary Endowed Chair; she is also an affiliate professor of biostatistics at the
University of Washington.
Education and career
Anderson grew up in Colorado; her mother had been a teacher in a
one-room school before raising her. She majored in mathematics at
Northwest Nazarene College in Idaho, graduating in 1981, and earned a master's degree in mathematics from
Binghamton University
The State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University or SUNY Binghamton) is a public university, public research university with campuses in Binghamton, New York, Binghamton, Vestal, New York, Vestal, and Johnson City, New Yor ...
in New York in 1983. She completed her Ph.D. in 1989, at the University of Washington. Her dissertation, ''Mismodelling Covariates in Cox Regression'', was supervised by Thomas R. Fleming.
She joined the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in 1989, after completing her doctorate, and in 1992 became principal investigator for the center's Women's Health Initiative Clinical Coordinating Center. She took her present position at the center, as senior vice president and director of the Public Health Sciences Division, in 2013.
Recognition
Anderson was elected as a
Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2020.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women statisticians
American biostatisticians
Northwest Nazarene University alumni
Binghamton University alumni
University of Washington alumni
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
21st-century American women scientists
21st-century American mathematicians
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center people