Emma K Benn, DrPH Email Emma Benn
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- Position
- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Population Health Science and Policy
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- Language
- English
Emma K. T. Benn, MPH, DrPH is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Biostatistics and Department of Population Health Science and Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She received her BA in Chemistry (Spanish Minor) in 2004 from Swarthmore College. She subsequently received her MPH in Sociomedical Sciences in 2007 and DrPH in Biostatistics in 2012 from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Benn is one of the co-founders of the NIH-funded Biostatistics Enrichment Summer Training (BEST) Diversity Program in the Department of Biostatistics at Mailman. She has contributed her biostatistical expertise to a variety of research areas including: epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, COPD, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, HPV, skin bleaching in African and Afro-Caribbean populations, stroke, and cognitive disability. More recently, Dr. Benn has been focused on causal inference in disparities research and applying econometrics-related methods to account for selectivity bias in clinical and translational research.
Follow Dr. Benn on Twitter @EKTBenn along with our Center for Biostatistics @SinaiBiostats.
Education
BA, Swarthmore College
MPH, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
DrPH, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Language
English
2013-2015 NIH/NIMHD Loan Repayment Program for Health Disparities Research Recipient
2014 Women in Statistics Junior Researcher Travel Award
2014 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) Diversity Mentoring Program Fellow
The Applied Statistics in Biological Systems (ASIBS) Short Course
NIH/NIGMS R25GM111239 (Role - Co-PI; Project Duration - 2015 to 2020)
2015 Beta Omicron Chapter Inductee of the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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