The 2025 lecturer was Francesca Dominici from Harvard University.
Francesca Dominici, Ph.D. is the director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative at Harvard University and the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In 2024, she made the TIME100 Health list for 2024: TIME100 Most Influential People in Global Health.
Dominici is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and of the International Society of Mathematical Statistics. She leads an interdisciplinary group of scientists to address important questions in environmental health science, climate change and health policy. She has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and provided her knowledge on the topics on joint panels with New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and the European Commission).
Dominici has provided the scientific community and policymakers with comprehensive and compelling evidence on the adverse health effects of air pollution, noise pollution and climate change. Her studies have directly and routinely impacted air quality policy. Dominici was recognized in Thomson Reuter’s 2019 list of the most highly cited researchers–ranking in the top 1% of cited scientists in her field. The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, BBC, the Guardian, CNN and NPR have covered her work. In April 2020, she was awarded the Karl E. Peace Award for Outstanding Statistical Contributions for the Betterment of Society by the American Statistical Association. She advocates for the career advancement of women faculty, and her work on the Johns Hopkins University Committee on the Status of Women earned her the campus Diversity Recognition Award in 2009. She has led the Committee for the Advancement of Women Faculty at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Further details and the recordings of the talks can be found here:
https://stat.ufl.edu/challis-lectures/2024-francesca-dominici/