Miguel Hernán is a Spanish–American epidemiologist. He is the Director of the CAUSALab, Kolokotrones Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers, the nation's first ...

, and Member of the Faculty at the

Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology The Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, or HST, is one of the oldest and largest biomedical engineering and physician-scientist training programs in the United States. It was founded in 1970 and is the longest-standing collab ...

. Hernán conducts research to learn what works to improve human health. Together with his collaborators from several countries, he designs analyses of healthcare databases, epidemiologic studies, and randomized trials. He is a Global Highly Cited Researcher. His free edX course ''Causal Diagrams'' has had over 50,000 registrations. His book ''Causal Inference: What If'', co-authored with

James Robins James M. Robins is an epidemiologist and biostatistician best known for advancing methods for drawing causal inferences from complex observational studies and randomized trials, particularly those in which the treatment varies with time. He is ...

is also freely available online and widely used for the training of researchers. Hernán is Editor Emeritus of

Epidemiology (journal) ''Epidemiology'' is a bi-monthly, peer-reviewed journal for epidemiologic research, published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. The journal publishes original research from all fields of epidemiology, as well as review articles, meta-analyses, ...

and past Associate Editor of

Biometrics (journal) ''Biometrics'' is a journal that publishes articles on the application of statistics and mathematics to the biological sciences. It is published by the International Biometric Society (IBS).

American Journal of Epidemiology The American Journal of Epidemiology (''AJE'') is a peer-reviewed journal for empirical research findings, opinion pieces, and methodological developments in the field of epidemiological research. The current editor-in-chief is Dr. Enrique Schist ...

, and the

Journal of the American Statistical Association The ''Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA)'' is the primary journal published by the American Statistical Association, the main professional body for statisticians in the United States. It is published four times a year in March, ...

. He has been a special Government employee of the U.S.

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and has served on several committees of the

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of the United States.

Education

*Licenciado en Medicina, 1995,

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid The Autonomous University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; UAM), commonly known as simply la Autónoma, is a Spanish public university located in Madrid, Spain. The university was founded in 1968 alongside the Autonomous Universi ...

, Spain *Master of Public Health (Quantitative Methods), 1996,

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, USA *Master of Science (Biostatistics), 1999,

, USA *Doctor of Public Health (Epidemiology), 1999,

, USA

Honors and awards

* Fellow,

La Caixa La Caixa, also known as the "La Caixa" Foundation ( es, Fundación ”la Caixa”), is a not-for-profit banking foundation based in Catalonia. Originally a savings bank (''caja''), it reorganized in the 2000s and 2010s: Its commercial assets are ...

Foundation, 1995–1997 * Fellow,

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...

(AAAS), elected in 2012 * MERIT Award,

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID, ) is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). NIAID's ...

, U.S. National Institutes of Health, 2018 * Fellow,

American Statistical Association The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second oldest continuousl ...

, elected in 2019 * 2022 Alumni Prize, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid * 2022 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics,

King Baudouin Foundation The King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) ( nl, Koning Boudewijnstichting, KBS; french: Fondation Roi-Baudouin) is an independent, pluralistic foundation based in Brussels (Belgium). It seeks to change society for the better and invests in inspiring proj ...

, Belgium (jointly with

, Thomas Richardson, Andrea Rotnitzky and Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen)

Scientific articles

* Runner-up to Best Research Report, Health Research Training Program, New York City Department of Health, 1994 * Kenneth Rothman Epidemiology Prize,

, 2005 (first author), 2021 (co-author) * Top 10 Article of the Year,

, 2014, 2015, 2016 * Award for Outstanding Research Article in Biosurveillance ( Impact on the field, 2nd prize), International Society for Disease Surveillance, 2016 * Influential Paper, American Journal of Epidemiology Centennial: first author and co-author of 2 of 4 selected influential articles published in the first 100 years of the journal

External links

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hernán, Miguel 1970 births Living people Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health faculty American epidemiologists Biostatisticians Fellows of the American Statistical Association Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health alumni Autonomous University of Madrid alumni