Rebecca Hubbard

Rebecca Allana Hubbard is an American biostatistician whose research interests include observational studies and the use of electronic health record data in public health analysis and decision-making, accounting for the errors in this type of data. She is a professor of biostatistics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.[1]

Early life and education

Hubbard is African-American,[2] and grew up in West Chester, Pennsylvania,[3] where her parents had moved from farming communities in Delaware.[2] She had a childhood love for science fiction and a talent for science and mathematics,[3] and became the first person in her family to go to college.[2]

She began her studies at the University of Pittsburgh in 1996, as a pre-med microbiology student,[2] but shifted to ecology and evolution after finding herself uninterested in clinical work and clumsy at lab work.[3] As an ecology student, she studied competition among plant species for openings in forest canopies.[2] Her eventual interest in biostatistics began with a summer undergraduate research program directed by Louise M. Ryan at Harvard University.[3] She graduated summa cum laude in 1999,[4] and was awarded a Marshall Scholarship,[2] which brought her to the University of Edinburgh for a master's degree in epidemiology in 2001, and a second master's degree in applied statistics at the University of Oxford in 2002. She returned to the US for a PhD in biostatistics at the University of Washington, completed in 2007.[2][4] Her dissertation, Modeling a Non-Homogeneous Markov Process via Time Transformation, was supervised by Lurdes Inoue.[5]

Career

Hubbard worked in the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center at the University of Washington from 2007 to 2008, and as a researcher at the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle (currently the Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute) from 2008 to 2014, while holding an affiliate faculty position at the University of Washington.[4]

In 2014, she moved to the University of Pennsylvania as an associate professor of biostatistics, epidemiology, and informatics, where she was promoted to full professor in 2020. At the University of Pennsylvania, she is also deputy director of the division of biostatistics and a member of the Abramson Cancer Center.[4] She chaired the Biometrics Section of the American Statistical Association in 2018.[6]

Recognition

Hubbard was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2019.[7] In 2020, she was the co-winner (with Sherri Rose of Harvard) of the Health Policy Statistics Section Mid-Career Award of the American Statistical Association.[8]

References
  1. "Rebecca A. Hubbard, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics", Faculty, Perelman School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Epidemiology & Informatics, 28 November 2016, retrieved 2021-05-25
  2. Kelly, Morgan (29 March 2010), "Making Medical Sense of Numbers: Rebecca Hubbard, Pitt's First African American Marshall Scholar, Builds Successful Career as a Biostatistician", Pitt Chronicle, University of Pittsburgh
  3. "Rebecca Hubbard", A Statistician's Life, Celebrating Black History Month, AmStat News, 1 February 2021
  4. Curriculum vitae (PDF), 1 February 2021, retrieved 2021-05-25
  5. Rebecca Hubbard at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. Biometrics Section Officers 2018, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2021-05-25
  7. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2021-05-25
  8. "13th ICHPS Sold Out in San Diego", AmStat News, 1 April 2020
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