Tyler VanderWeele

Tyler J. VanderWeele is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also the co-director of Harvard University's Initiative on Health, Religion and Spirituality, the director of their Human Flourishing Program, and a faculty affiliate of the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science. His research has focused on the application of causal inference to epidemiology, as well as on the relationship between religion and health.[1][2][3] He was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2014, and received the Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association in the same year. In 2017, he received the COPSS Presidents' Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies.[4]