Elizabeth A. Stuart

Elizabeth A. Stuart is a professor of mental health, biostatistics, and health policy and management in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research involves causal inference and missing data in the statistics of mental health. She was a co-author on a study showing that post-suicide-attempt counseling can significantly reduce the risk of future suicide.

Education and career Stuart graduated from Smith College in 1997, with a mathematics major and chemistry minor. She completed her Ph.D. at Harvard University in 2004, in statistics, under the supervision of Donald Rubin. After working for two years as a researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, she joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2006. In 2020, she was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in the Section on Statistics. In 2020, she became a Bloomberg Professor of American Health.