Betz Halloran

Biography

M. Elizabeth (Betz) Halloran is Professor of Biostatistics in the Vaccine and infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Research Center, and in the Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, in Seattle. She is Director of the NIGMS/NIH-funded Center for Inference and Dynamics of Infectious Diseases. She is founder and Director of the NIGMS/NIH-funded Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases, which will take place for the 9th time in Seattle in July 2017. She is currently the recipient of a MERIT award from NIAID/NIH for methods for evaluating vaccine effects. Since the 1980s, Professor Halloran has been a leader in defining different effects of vaccines and vaccination strategies in populations and in developing new epidemiologic and statistical methods for their evaluation. Her contribution in defining direct, indirect, total and overall effects of vaccination has become common usage in the field of evaluating not only vaccines but also other interventions in infectious diseases. She studied medicine in West Berlin, Germany. She has a Masters of Public Health in Tropical Public Health (1985) and a Doctor of Science (1989), both from the Harvard School of Public Health

Research Interest

Developing novel designs, methods of statistical analysis, and interpretation of vaccine field studies and other interventions; causal inference