Megan E. Price is Executive Director of the

Human Rights Data Analysis Group The Human Rights Data Analysis Group is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world. It was founded in 1991 by Patrick Ball. The organization has published findi ...

. She collects and analyses data to investigate violations to human rights.

Early life and education

Price studied statistics at

Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve was established in 1967, when Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 and named for its location in the Connecticut Western Reser ...

. She earned a PhD in biostatistics from the

Rollins School of Public Health The Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH) is the public health school of Emory University. Founded in 1990, Rollins has more than 1,100 students pursuing master's degrees ( MPH/MSPH) and over 150 students pursuing doctorate degrees ( PhD). Th ...

in 2009. She completed a Certificate in Human Rights at

Emory University Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, Emory is the second-oldest private institution of ...

. As soon as she graduated she began working with the

Career

Price has worked on strategies for the statistical analysis of human rights data in Colombia, Syria and Guatemala. Whilst in

Guatemala Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...

, Price analysed documents from the National Police Archives. In Syria she was commissioned by the

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, commonly known as the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) or the United Nations Human Rights Office, is a department of the Secretariat of the United Nati ...

to act as lead statistician on two reports. She is a Research Fellow at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

in the Centre for Human Rights Science. She was made Director of Research at the

in 2013. She was appointed Executive Director in 2015. In 2016 she was awarded an

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New Executive Fund. Price is on the editorial board of Significance magazine. She was a participant at the 2018

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. She was elected chair of the

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's Social Statistics program in 2021. In 2022, she was named a

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References

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