{"id":5,"date":"2020-06-29T18:27:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T22:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/idmodel\/laura-f-white-research-group\/"},"modified":"2022-10-26T16:01:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T20:01:39","slug":"laura-f-white-research-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/idmodel\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/idmodel\/files\/2020\/07\/Inkedheadshot-barca-cropped-highlights_final-583x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"636\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/idmodel\/files\/2020\/07\/Inkedheadshot-barca-cropped-highlights_final-583x636.jpg 583w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/idmodel\/files\/2020\/07\/Inkedheadshot-barca-cropped-highlights_final-768x838.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/idmodel\/files\/2020\/07\/Inkedheadshot-barca-cropped-highlights_final-939x1024.jpg 939w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/>I am a Professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/about\/departments\/biostatistics\/\">Department of Biostatistics<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/\">Boston University School of Public Health<\/a>. I specialize in developing statistical methods for infectious disease transmission and surveillance. I also work in developing tools to better understand substance use disorders.<\/p>\n<p>I am the co-director of our graduate program in biostatistics. Reach out to me if you are interested in studying biostatistics!<\/p>\n<p>On this site, you can find links to my recent publications and interests. You can find information about our research group <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/lfwhite\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I graduated in math and statistics from Utah State University and then pursued my PhD in Biostatistics at Harvard University. I did my thesis work under the direction of Marcello Pagano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Boston University School of Public Health. I specialize in developing statistical methods for infectious disease transmission and surveillance. I also work in developing tools to better understand substance use disorders. I am the co-director of our graduate program in biostatistics. Reach out to me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18075,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/idmodel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/idmodel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/idmodel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/idmodel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/idmodel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/idmodel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/idmodel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/idmodel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}