Data Science Institute

Anarina Murillo, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics on the Teaching Scholar Track at Brown University. 

Professor Murillo received her PhD in Applied Mathematics and a Certificate in Statistics from Arizona State University. She completed an NIH T32 postdoctoral fellowship in the statistical genetics and obesity training programs in the Department of Biostatistics and NIH-funded Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

She served as Visiting Faculty in the Department of Biostatistics at the NYU School of Global Public Health. Prior to that she was an Assistant Professor (Research) with the Department of Pediatrics and a Senior Biostatistician with the Center for Statistical Sciences at Brown. She was involved with leading the design and analysis of clinical and translational research in collaboration with investigators affiliated with the Advance-CTR, Hasbro Children’s Hospital, and Women & Infants Hospital. 

In 2020, she was selected for the NIH NHLBI PRIDE program as a Research in Implementation Science for Equity (RISE) fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. In 2022, she was selected for the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Improving Care Delivery for the Aging (CICADA) Scholars program.

How does your research, teaching, or other work relate to data or computational science?

I am a teaching faculty and incorporate data science concepts and thinking into my curriculum for my courses at the undergrad and graduate level. My research emphasizes health disparities, chronic disease, measurement error and big data where concepts in data science are discussed to carry out this work.