Lance Waller
Bio
Lance A. Waller is Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. He received his B.S. in Mathematics from New Mexico State University (1986), and his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University (1991). Prof. Waller currently co-chairs the U.S. National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics. Prof. Waller is also in his second three-year term on the US Census Bureau's Scientific Advisory Committee.
His research involves the development and application of statistical methods for spatially referenced data including applications in environmental justice, neurology, epidemiology, disease surveillance, conservation biology, and disease ecology. He has published in a variety of biostatistical, statistical, environmental health, and ecology journals and is co-author with Carol Gotway of the text Applied Spatial Statistics for Public Health Data (2004, Wiley).
Areas of Interest
- Disease Surveillance
- Infectious Disease
- Public Health Preparedness and Response
- Statistical Modeling
- Biostatistics
- Spatial Analysis/GIS
- Data Science
Education
- PhD, Cornell University
- MS, Cornell University
- BS, New Mexico State University
Affiliations
Dr. Waller is also on the graduate faculty in Environmental Health Sciences, and the Population Biology, Evolution, and Ecology program in the Graduate Division of Biomedical and Biological Sciences.
Dr. Waller is co-chair of the National Academies' Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics.
Dr. Waller is on the Independent Advisory Committee for Global Burden of Disease.