Adriana Perez
Professor
512/391-2524
University of Texas Administration Building
1616 Guadalupe, Suite 6.300, Austin, TX 78701
About
Adriana Pérez, Ph.D., is Professor at the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Austin campus. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from the National University of Colombia, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Tulane University. Dr. Pérez has engaged in a wide range of research projects: theoretical model evaluation accounting for imputation uncertainty, fitting complex data, analysis of cluster randomized community trials, clinical trials and analysis of food intake involving measurement error and tobacco regulatory science. Dr. Pérez has expertise in conducting and disseminating research findings of population- and clinical-based studies of adolescents and adults, as well as developing new statistical methodologies. She has completed several grants satisfactorily and currently the National Cancer Institute has granted her an R01 entitled “Age of initiation of tobacco products among USA youth and young adults”. Dr. Pérez has over 100 publications. Besides her interest in Biostatistics she is interested in promoting diversity in our field and fostering recruitment, retention and promotion of minorities in our field. Dr. Pérez is an active member of the International Biometric Society and the American Statistical Association(ASA). She has held numerous elected positions in several professional organizations including co-chairing ENAR’s diversity workshop from 2009-2011, member of the ASA Committee on Minorities Statistics, organizer member of the StatFest since 2016 and hosting StatFest 2019 in Houston and Austin.
Center Affiliation
Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living
Research Interests
- Adolescent Health
- Behavioral/Mental Health
- Big Data/Data Science
- Biostatistics
- Border Health
- Cancer
- Clinical Trials
- Environmental and Occupational Health
- Epidemiology
- GIS/Spatio-temporal Data Analysis
- Health Economics
- Health Education/Behavioral Sciences
- Maternal and Child Health
- Physical Activity and Nutrition
- Program Evaluation
- Social Determinants of Health