Correcting for Verbal Autopsy Misclassification Bias in Cause-Specific Mortality Estimates

Abhirup Datta, PhD  is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining JHU in 2016, he completed his PhD in Biostatistics from University of Minnesota. Dr. Datta’s research focuses on developing spatial models for geographically indexed data with applications to air pollution and infectious disease modeling, and Bayesian hierarchical models for multi-source data with applications in global health. His research is funded by Principal Investigator grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has received the Early Career Investigator award from the American Statistical Association Section of Environmental Health and the Young Statistical Scientist Award (YSSA) by the International Indian Statistical Association (IISA).