Francesca Dominici

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Francesca Dominici
Faculty Director
Harvard Data Science Initiative
Dr. Francesca Dominici is the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population, and Data Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative at Harvard University. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the International Society of Mathematical Statistics. In 2024, she was named by TIME100 Health as one of the most influential scientists in global health in the world. Before being appointed founding Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, she was Senior Associate Dean for Research at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Dominici is also the founder and Principal Investigator (PI) for the National Studies on Air Pollution and Health Group (NSAPH), a multi-disciplinary group of faculty post-doctoral fellows from several academic institutions that rely on harmonized data assets to advance research on climate and AI. She is also one of the Principal Investigators of the only national research coordinating center on climate and health funded by the National Institute of Health.
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