Lance Waller
Professor
Faculty, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Jointly Appointed, Environmental Health
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).
Contact Information
Department of Biostatistics , Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Atlanta , GA 30322
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Phone: (404) 727-1057
Fax: (404) 727-1370
Email: lwaller@emory.edu
Areas of Interest
- Biostatistics
- Data Science
- Disease Surveillance
- Infectious Disease
- Public Health Preparedness and Response
- Spatial Analysis/GIS
- Statistical Modeling
Education
- PhD 1991, Cornell University
- MS 1990, Cornell University
- BS 1986, New Mexico State University
Affiliations & Activities
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 U.S. Census Bureau's Scientific Advisory Committee.
Dr. Waller is on the Independent Advisory Committee for Global Burden of Disease.
Publications
- Peterson, E.N., Nethery, R.C., Padellini, T., Chen, J.T., Coull, B.A., Piel, F.P., Wakefield, J., Blangiardo, M., and Waller, L.A., 2024, A Bayesian hierarchical small area population model accounting for data source specific methodologies from American Community Survey, Population Estimates Program, and Decennial census data, Annals of Applied Statistics, 18, 1565-1595
- Waller, L.A., 2024, Maps: A statistical view, Annual Review of Statistics and Its Applications, 11, 75-96
- Buller, I.D., Hacker, G.M., Novak, M.G., Tucker, J.R., Peterson, A.T., and Waller, L.A., 2024, Multiple “spaces”: Using wildlife surveillance, climatic variables, and spatial statistics to identify and map a climatic niche for endemic plague in California, U.S.A., Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 51, 100696
- Waller, L.A., 2023, A conversation with Ray A. Waller, CHANCE, 36, 30-36
- Conroy, B, Waller, L.A., Buller, I.D., Hacker, G.M., Tucker, J.R., and Novak, M.G., 2023, A shared latent process model to correct for preferential sampling in disease surveillance systems., Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, ,
- Waller LA and Levi T, 2021, Building Intuition Regarding the Statistical Behavior of Mass Medical Testing Programs, Harvard Data Science Review, ,
- Lance Waller, 2010, Mapping the links between statistics and health, , ,
- Wheeler, D.C. and Waller, L.A., 2008, Mountains, valleys, and rivers: The transmission of raccoon rabies over a heterogeneous landscape, Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, ,
- Waller, L. A. and Gotway, C. A., 2004, Applied Spatial Statistics for Public Health Data, John Wiley and Sons, , ,
- Waller, L.A., Smith, D., Childs, J E. and Real, L.A. , 2003, Monte Carlo assessments of goodness-of-fit for ecological simulation models, Ecological Modelling, 164, 49-63