Biosketch
Danielle Braun is a research scientist in the Biostatistics Department at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and at the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Her areas of research include risk prediction, genetic epidemiology, measurement error, survival analysis, frailty models, clinical tool development, causal inference, and comparative effectiveness research. As a research scientist Danielle co-leads the BayesMendel lab with Dr. Parmigiani and works with Dr. Dominici.
Biography
Harvard University, Ph.D. Biostatistics, December 2013 (advisor: Dr. Parmigiani)
Harvard University, A.M., Biostatistics, 2010
MIT, B.S., Mathematics, Minor: Economics, 2007
Software
BayesMendel R package: BayesMendel
ASK2ME Risk Prediction Tool: ASK2ME.org
Danielle Braun Contact
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. School of Public Health
655 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
dbraun@hsph.harvard.edu
Recent Publications
- Performance of breast cancer risk assessment models in a large mammography cohort
- Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to Review and Classify the Medical Literature on Cancer Susceptibility Genes.
- Validation of a Semiautomated Natural Language Processing–Based Procedure for Meta-Analysis of Cancer Susceptibility Gene Penetrance
- Clinical Factors Associated With Gastric Cancer in Individuals With Lynch Syndrome
- Incidental atypical hyperplasia/LCIS in mammoplasty specimens and subsequent risk of breast cancer.
- Low Levels of Air Pollution and Health: Effect Estimates, Methodological Challenges, and Future Directions