Anushka Palipana

Dr. Anushka Palipana is a Biostatistician in the Health Statistics and Data Science division at the Duke University School of Nursing. She earned her Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Cincinnati and her B.Sc. in Statistics from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Her research interests encompass longitudinal modeling, survival analysis, and the joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data, with a focus on their applications in health science.

Prior to joining Duke University School of Nursing, Dr. Palipana was a postdoctoral research fellow at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC). At CCHMC, her research involved designing and analyzing medical monitoring investigations and integrating geo- and bio-markers to enhance the prediction and early detection of disease progression in conditions such as lymphangioleiomyomatosis and cystic fibrosis.

Dr. Palipana has authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles published in methodological and clinical journals, including CHEST, Biometrics, Pediatric Pulmonology, PLoS One, and the Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, among others.