COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP

Lawrence D. Brown (Chair), Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

John M. Abowd, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University

Alicia Carriquiry, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University

William DuMouchel, Oracle Health Sciences, Waltham, Massachusetts

V. Joseph Hotz, Department of Economics, Duke University

Michael Hout, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Karen Kafadar, Department of Statistics, Indiana University

Sallie Keller, IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC

Lisa Lynch, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Sally C. Morton, Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh

Joseph Newhouse, Division of Health Policy Research and Education, Harvard University

Ruth D. Peterson, Department of Sociology and Criminal justice Research Center, Ohio State University

Hal Stern, School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine

John H. Thompson, National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago

Roger Tourangeau, Westat, Rockville, Maryland

Alan Zaslavsky, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

Lawrence D. Brown (chair) is Miers Busch professor in the Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of both the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association. He has served on many NAS/NRC committees including the Board on Mathematical Sciences, the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, and the Committee on National Statistics (1999-2005). He was committee chair and co-editor for NRC reports entitled “Measuring Research and Development Expenditures in the US Economy” and “Envisioning the 2020 Census”. He is an expert in statistical foundations, conditional inference, sequential methods, exponential families, and decision theory. He has a B.S. degree in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. degree in statistics from Cornell University. FACULTY PAGE.
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John M. Abowd is Edmund Ezra Day professor of industrial and labor relations and professor of information science at Cornell University. He is research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and research affiliate at the Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (CREST, Paris, France). His current research focuses on the creation, dissemination, privacy protection, and use of linked, longitudinal data on employees and employers. He served on the faculty at Princeton University, the University of Chicago, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before coming to Cornell. His National Academies’ service includes membership on the CNSTAT Panel on Measuring Business Formation, Dynamics, and Performance and the CNSTAT Panel on Access to Research Data: Balancing Risks and Opportunities. He has a B.A. degree in economics from the University of Notre Dame, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Chicago. PERSONAL PAGE.
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Alicia Carriquiry is distinguished professor of liberal arts and sciences and professor of statistics at Iowa State University. Her research interests include Bayesian statistics and general methods. Her recent work focuses on nutrition and dietary assessment, as well as on problems in genomics, forensic sciences, and traffic safety. She is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She serves on the executive committee of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and has been a member of the board of trustees of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences since 1997. She has an M.Sc. degree from the University of Illinois, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics and animal genetics from Iowa State University. FACULTY PAGE.
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William DuMouchel is vice president and chief research statistical scientist at Oracle Phase Forward. He previously served as director and senior advisor at Lincoln Technologies, Inc., and professor of biostatistics and medical informatics at Columbia University. He has served on the faculties of the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Michigan, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has served on the Committee on Privacy and Technical Aspects of Information for Terrorism Prevention and Other Goals; the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics; and the Committee on Postmarket Surveillance of Pediatric Medical Devices. He has a Ph.D. degree in statistics from Yale University.
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V. Joseph Hotz is the arts & sciences professor of economics at Duke University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Duke Population Research Institute and a research affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty and the National Poverty Center. Hotz is a fellow of the Econometric Society. Previously, he served as professor and chair of the Department of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include labor economics, economic demography, and evaluation of the impact of social programs. He has served on several CNSTAT panels, including those on the Census Bureau’s Re-engineered SIPP, and Access to Research Data: Balancing Risks and Opportunities. He has a Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin. FACULTY PAGE.
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Michael Hout (NAS) holds the Natalie Cohen sociology chair in the Department of Sociology of the University of California at Berkeley. In his research, he uses demographic methods to study social change in inequality, religion, and politics. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. His National Academies’ service includes current membership on the DBASSE Board on Testing and Assessment, Panel on Measuring Higher Education Productivity, and Committee on Incentives and Test-based Accountability, which he chairs, and past membership on the Committee for the Redesign of the U.S. Naturalization Tests. He has a B.A. degree in history and sociology from the University of Pittsburgh, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from Indiana University. FACULTY PAGE.
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Karen Kafadar is James H. Rudy professor of statistics and physics at Indiana University. Previously she was Professor and Chancellor's Scholarat at the University of Colorado-Denver, and research fellow at the National Cancer Institute. Her research focuses on exploratory data analysis, robust methods, characterization of uncertainty in quantitative studies, and analysis of experimental data in the physical, chemical, biological, and engineering sciences. She has served as Chair of an NAS Committee on Applied and Theoretic Statistics and on previous NAS committees and on the editorial review boards for several professional journals. She is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and the International Statistical Institute, and has authored over 80 journal articles and book chapters. She has B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford and a Ph.D. degree in statistics from Princeton University. FACULTY PAGE.
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Sallie Keller is director of the Science and Technology Policy Institute. Prior to this she was the William and Stephanie Sick dean of engineering at Rice University. Her other appointments include head the statistical sciences group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, professor and director of graduate studies in the department of statistics at Kansas State University, and statistics program director at the National Science Foundation. She has served as a member of the Board on Mathematical Sciences and its Applications and has chaired the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics. Her areas of research are uncertainty quantification, computational and graphical statistics and related software and modeling techniques, and data access and confidentiality. She is a national associate of the National Academy of Sciences and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is also a fellow and past president of the American Statistical Association. She has a Ph.D. degree in statistics from the Iowa State University of Science and Technology.
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Lisa Lynch is dean and professor of economics at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. Prior to this she was chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor, director and chair of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and a faculty member at Tufts University, M.I.T., The Ohio State University, and the University of Bristol. She is currently a member of the Governor's Council of Economic Advisors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Academic Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. She has published extensively on issues such as the impact of technological change and organizational innovation (especially training) on productivity and wages, the determinants of youth unemployment, and the school to work transition. She has M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. FACULTY PAGE.
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Sally Morton is chair and professor of biostatistics in the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh. Previously, she was vice president for statistics and epidemiology at RTI International, head of the RAND Corporation's statistics group and codirector of the Southern California Evidence-based Practice Center. She was the 2009 president of the American Statistical Association (ASA), and is a fellow of the ASA and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Her interests include comparative effectiveness research, the use of meta-analysis in evidence-based medicine, and the sampling of vulnerable populations. She is a founding editor of Statistics, Politics, and Policy. She has served as a member of several Institute of Medicine (IOM) committees concerning systematic reviews and comparative effectiveness. She has a Ph.D. degree in statistics from Stanford University. FACULTY PAGE.
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Joseph Newhouse is John D. MacArthur professor of health policy and management at Harvard University, where he is a member of the faculties of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, the Harvard School of Public Health, the Harvard Medical School, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Previously, he designed and directed the RAND Health Insurance Experiment, a project that ran from 1971 to 1988 that studied the consequences of different ways of financing medical services, and was head of RAND’s Economics Department. His expertise is in health care financing and organization, health research policy, health services research, health care quality and outcomes, and general health economics. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, and chaired CNSTAT’s Panel to Oversee a Research Program on the Design of National Accounts. He edits the Journal of Health Economics and is on the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine. He has a Ph.D. degree in economics from Harvard University. FACULTY PAGE.
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Ruth D. Peterson is professor of sociology and director of the Criminal Justice Research Center at Ohio State University, where she has been on the faculty since 1985. She has conducted research on legal decision making and sentencing, crime and deterrence, and most recently, patterns of urban crime. She is widely published in the areas of capital punishment, race, gender, and socioeconomic disadvantage. Her current research focuses on the linkages among racial residential segregation, concentrated social disadvantage and race-specific crime, and the social context of prosecutorial and court decisions. She served on the CNSTAT Panel to Review the Programs of the Bureau of Justice Statistics and is a member of the NRC Committee on Law and Justice. She has a Ph.D. degree in sociology from the University of Wisconsin. FACULTY PAGE.
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Hal Stern is Ted and Janice Smith Family Foundation dean and professor of statistics at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Irvine. Prior to this he held academic appointments at Iowa State University and Harvard University. An expert in Bayesian modeling and techniques, he is coauthor of Bayesian Data Analysis. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, and currently serves as application and case studies editor for the association’s flagship journal, Journal of the American Statistical Association. He has served on numerous panels at the National Academies including the Panel on Usability of the American Community Survey and the Panel on Missing Data in Clinical Trials. He has a Ph.D. degree in statistics from Stanford University. FACULTY PAGE.
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John H. Thompson is president of the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) and previously NORC's executive vice president for survey operations. He came to NORC in 2002 after a 27-year career at the U.S. Census Bureau, where, as one the bureau’s most senior career officers, he had responsibility for all aspects of the 2000 census, including management, operations, and methodology. He is an acknowledged expert in the field of social science research, with a special emphasis on large and complex surveys. His recent work includes serving as project director for the National Immunization Survey (NIS), which NORC conducts on behalf of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He served on the CNSTAT Panel on the Design of the 2010 Census Program of Evaluations and Experiments and is serving on the CNSTAT Panel to Review the 2010 Census. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from Virginia Tech University. PROFILE.
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Roger Tourangeau is director of the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland and senior research scientist at the University of Michigan. Prior to this he was senior methodologist at the Gallup Organization, where he designed and selected samples and carried out methodological studies. He also founded and directed the Statistics and Methodology Center at National Opinion Research Center where he carried out methodological studies and developed and executed sample designs for many federal and academic surveys. He has been a survey researcher for nearly 30 years, and his research focuses on attitude and opinion measurement and on differences across methods of data collection. He has a Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University. FACULTY PAGE.
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Alan Zaslavsky is professor of health care policy (statistics) in the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School. He is an expert in sampling and survey analysis, missing data methods, census methodology and health services research. He has served on numerous National Academies’ panels including the Panel on Coverage Measurement, the Panel to Evaluate Alternative Census Methods, the Panel on Alternative Census Methodologies, the Panel on Estimates of Poverty for Small Geographic Areas, the Committee on the National Quality Report on Health Care Delivery (IOM), the Panel on Research on Future Census Methods, and the Panel on DHHS Collection of Race and Ethnicity Data, as well as several committees of the Institute of Medicine. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. He has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. FACULTY PAGE.
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