Presented by: Jessica Young, PhD, Associate Professor of Population Medicine

Jessica Young is an Associate Professor and Biostatistician in the Department of Population Medicine at the Harvard Medical School & Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.  She holds a secondary faculty appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the development and application of statistical methods for the causal effects of time-varying treatment strategies in observational studies and randomized studies with real-world complications such as treatment nonadherence and loss to follow-up. She has particular interest in the problem of making valid and meaningful causal inferences in the face of competing or truncation events: terminal events, such as death, that render a nonterminal study outcome of interest impossible or undefined.