Donna Spiegelman, ScD

Yale University

(she/her)

Donna Spiegelman, ScD, is a Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Biostatistics, Director of the Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS), Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine), and Assistant Director of Global Oncology at the Yale Cancer Center. Spiegelman and her colleagues at CMIPS focus on the development and dissemination of methods adapted and developed for the unique needs of implementation research. Topics include design of stepped wedge, cluster randomized, and Learn as You Go trials; causal inference for non-randomized implementation studies; mediation analysis for quantifying the pathways between implementation strategies, implementation outcomes, and health outcomes; methods for assessing the spillover of intervention effects from those directly receiving the intervention to those in their social and other relevant networks; and methods for enhancing the external generalizability of implementation studies for scale-up and scale-out. She leads and supports implementation research on the prevention of cervical cancer, cardiometabolic risk, and HIV/AIDS risk in the United States, Nepal, Mexico, South Africa, and Uganda.