Second Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
29 October -2 November 2022

Prof Kiros Berhane (Participant)

Prof. Berhane is the Cynthia and Robert Citron-Roslyn and Leslie Goldstein Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Mailman School of Public Health. His broad background is in development of statistical and data science methods for complex data structures in public health research, and their application to examination of multi-factorial effects of risk factors with multiple levels of aggregation. He has served as a PI or Co-I on NIH-funded R01, Program Project, Training (U2R, R25, T32) and Center Grants. In addition to APHREA-DST, he is Co-PI of the Global Environmental and Occupational Health (GEOHealth) Hub for Eastern Africa, which also involves both Addis Ababa University (AAU) and University of Nairobi (UoN). Dr. Berhane has been involved in teaching and mentoring of students and post-doctoral fellows for 25+ years. He was previously Director of Graduate Programs in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Southern California (USC) from 2011-2019. He He has served on several national and international advisory and review panels