Donna Brogan

Donna Jean Brogan (born July 12, 1939) is an American statistician and professor emeritus of statistics at Emory University. Brogan has worked in biostatistical research in the areas of women's health, mental health and psychosocial health statistics, statistics on breast cancer, and analysis of complex survey data.

Early life and education Brogan was born July 12, 1939, and grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, and she was the first in her family to go to college. She earned a B.A. in mathematics from Gettysburg College in 1960, an M.S. in statistics from Purdue University in 1962. She earned a PhD in statistics from Iowa State University in 1967,

For four years, she was an assistant professor in the University of North Carolina in the School of Public Health, with a specialization in sample survey design and analysis. Then in 1970, she joined the Emory University School of Medicine as associate professor, later professor in the Department of Statistics and Biometry. Between 1991 and 1994, she was the division director of biostatistics at Emory. and was awarded the Iowa State University Distinguished Alumni Award in 2002. In 1995, Iowa State University engraved her name on its Plaza of Heroines, which honors outstanding women graduates and faculty.

The "Donna J. Brogan Lecture in Biostatistics" was established in 2004 at Emory University, to honor Brogan's work at the school.

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