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Scott L. Zeger is Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University’s Vice Provost for Research.

He conducts statistical research on regression analysis for correlated responses as occur in surveys, time series, longitudinal or genetics studies.

Professor Zeger has been elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Statistical Association. He has served as expert witness to the U.S. Department of Justice and several states in their civil suits against the tobacco industry and as a member of the Board of Scientific Advisors for the Merck Research Laboratory. He is co-editor of the Oxford University Press journal Biostatistics and a member of the Springer-Verlag editorial board for statistics.

Dr. Zeger represents the university in all matters related to the research and scholarship of its faculty and students. Among his major responsibilities, he chairs the Research Oversight Committee, comprising the research deans, research administration directors and key university personnel, to strategically plan the university’s research infrastructure. He chairs the Institutional Compliance Oversight Committee (ICOC) that reports at each Board of Trustees meeting and assures that the university complies with all government rules and regulations.

Dr. Zeger is currently chairing a working group on Learning Gateway Science (LeGS) involving undergraduate and graduate students at Johns Hopkins.