Wei Pan

Dr. Wei Pan is a Professor and Director of Health Statistics and Data Science at the Duke University School of Nursing. He also has a secondary appointment with the Department of Population Health Sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in Measurement & Quantitative Methods from Michigan State University and M.S. in Statistics from Fuzhou University, China. His research interests are causal inference, advanced statistical modeling, data analytics, meta-analysis, and psychometrics; and their applications in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. He has been involved as a Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator, and Principal Biostatistician in many research projects funded by federal agencies, such as NIH, NSF, and the like. He has published numerous refereed journal articles on both methodological and applied research. He was awarded the Outstanding Ph.D. Faculty Award by the Duke University School of Nursing. He was an Invited Expert Observer in the Reference Group on Health Statistics of the World Health Organization. He is a Science Board Member of the American Public Health Association.