Denis Agniel

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Associate Statistician; Affiliate Faculty, Pardee RAND Graduate School
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Education

Ph.D. in biostatistics, Harvard University; A.M. in biostatistics, Harvard University; M.S. in statistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; B.S. in statistics, Loyola University Chicago; B.A. in philosophy, Loyola University Chicago

Overview

Denis Agniel is an associate statistician at the RAND Corporation and affiliate faculty member at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He works broadly in health policy, including active research in substance use, HIV, and medical informatics. His methodological interests include longitudinal data, multivariate and mixed outcomes, survival analysis, multiple hypothesis testing, nonparametric and semiparametric statistics, and causal inference. Recent projects include estimating the association between opioid misuse and post-surgical opioid prescriptions and personalizing treatment for adolescents with substance use problems. He received his Ph.D. in biostatistics from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Concurrent Non-RAND Positions

Lecturer of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School

Publications