Miguel Hernán is a Spanish–American epidemiologist. He is Director of 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 at Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. It was named after Hong Kong entrepreneur Chan Tseng-hsi in 2014 following a US$350 ...

, and Member of the Faculty at the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. 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 in the 1% of Highly Cited Researchers since 2017. His free edX course ''Causal Diagrams'' has had over 80,000 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 causality, causal inferences from complex observational study, observational studies and randomized trials, particularly those in which the trea ...

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

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, Editor Emeritus of

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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 Enrique Schisterma ...

, and the

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. He has been a

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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 (; UAM), commonly known as la Autónoma, is a Spanish public university located in Madrid, Spain. The university was founded in 1968 by royal decree. UAM is widely respected as one of the most prestigious univ ...

, 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 (), is a not-for-profit banking foundation based in Spain, with its headquarters in Barcelona since March 2025. Originally a savings bank (''caja''), it reorganized in the 2000s and 2010s: I ...

Foundation, 1995–1997 * Fellow,

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a United States–based international nonprofit with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsib ...

(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. NIAID's mis ...

, 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 continuous ...

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

King Baudouin Foundation The King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) (, KBS; ) is a foundation based in Brussels (Belgium). It seeks to change society for the better and invests in inspiring projects and individuals. The Foundation was set up in 1976, on the occasion of the 25th ...

, Belgium (jointly with

, Thomas Richardson,

Andrea Rotnitzky Andrea Gloria Rotnitzky is an Argentine biostatistician whose research involves causal inference on the effects of medical interventions in the face of missing data. She is Prentice Endowed Professor of Biostatistics in the University of Washing ...

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:Hernan, 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