Christopher Schmid

Biography

Christopher Schmid is Professor of Biostatistics and founding member and Co-Director of the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health in the Brown School of Public Health, Boston, USA.  He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), an elected member of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology and Founding Co-Editor of Research Synthesis Methods.   He currently directs the Evidence Synthesis Academy, funded by the US to support training of mid-career professionals in evidence synthesis. He has served on many committees and reporting guideline groups and is a recognised expert in synthesis.

Research Interest

 He is statistical editor for the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.His research focuses on methods and applications for meta-analysis particularly Bayesian methods and software and on predictive models derived from combining data from different sources. He has published extensively on meta-regression and multivariate methods. Chris helped develop the Institute of Medicine national standards for systematic reviews and he directed the Brown Biostatistics Masters Program from 2012-2016. He chaired the Section on Health Policy Statistics at the American Statistical Association.  He consults extensively with government, academia and industry and currently serves on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Health Care Research Training Study Section and the FDA Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee.