Sally C. Morton

Sally C. Morton is an American statistician specializing in comparative effectiveness research. On February 1, 2021, Morton joined Arizona State University as executive vice president of Knowledge Enterprise (KE). In this capacity, she advances ASU’s research priorities and oversees activities related to KE’s operations, as well as its institutes and initiatives. Morton also helps expand the university’s economic development, international development, and corporate engagement and strategic partnership agendas while identifying and pursuing high-level research opportunities. In addition, Morton is a professor in the College of Health Solutions and the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, and holds the Florence Ely Nelson Chair.

Before joining ASU, Morton was dean of the College of Science and professor of statistics at Virginia Tech. Prior to this role, she worked at RTI International, the RAND Corporation and the University of Pittsburgh.[1][2]

Morton was 2009 president of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and 2013 chair of Section U (Statistics) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[3] She is a fellow of the ASA and of the AAAS, and an elected member of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology and the International Statistical Institute (ISI).[1][2] She won the Founders Award of the American Statistical Association in 2015[4] and is the 2017 winner of the Janet L. Norwood Award.[3]

Morton was educated at the London School of Economics and at Stanford University, where she earned a PhD in statistics.