Andrea S Foulkes, ScD has devoted her career to improving understanding of infectious diseases and cardiometabolic disorders through the application and advancement of novel statistical methods for big data. Dr. Foulkes received her doctoral degree in Biostatistics at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health where she continued as a post-doctoral research fellow. She currently serves as Chief of Biostatistics at Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
Dr. Foulkes has a 25-year active research program in statistical methods for precision medicine using high-dimensional molecular and cellular level data. Her statistical methods work is grounded in HIV/AIDS, cardiometabolic disease, inflammation and SARS-CoV-2 translational medicine. As PI on multiple NIH-funded awards, she is leading efforts to develop and evaluate principled statistical methods for interrogating the mechanistic underpinnings of complex diseases. Dr. Foulkes is currently leading the Data Resource Core for the NIH-sponsored Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) initiative, a large-scale, multi-site study aiming to enhance understanding of and ability to predict, treat, and prevent long COVID.
