Professor Bhramar Mukherjee is the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH). Professor Mukherjee serves as the inaugural Senior Associate Dean of Public Health Data Science and Data Equity at YSPH. She holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Statistics and Data Science and is affiliated with the MacMillan Center and the Institute for the Foundations of Data Science. She serves on the Yale Cancer Center Director’s cabinet.
Dr. Mukherjees’s research interests span statistical methods for analyzing electronic health records, gene-environment interaction studies, data integration, data equity, shrinkage estimation, and the analysis of environmental mixtures. Collaboratively, she contributes to areas such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, reproductive health, exposure science, and environmental epidemiology.
Prior to joining Yale University in 2024, Dr. Mukherjee built a distinguished career at the University of Michigan from 2006-2024, where she was appointed as John D. Kalbfleisch Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics (2023-2024), Siobán D. Harlow Collegiate Professor of Public Health (2023-2024), John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics (2015-2023) and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics (2018-2024). She had several other significant leadership appointments at Michigan including an institutional appointment as the inaugural Assistant Vice President for Research for Research Data Services Strategy (2023-2024); Associate Director for Quantitative Data Sciences(2019-2024), Associate Director for Cancer Control and population Sciences (2015-2018) at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center. She also held professorial appointments in Epidemiology and Global Public Health. Professor Mukherjee was actively engaged with the U-M Precision Health initiative, as well as the Michigan Institute of Data Science (MIDAS). She served as the founding director of a flagship undergraduate summer program in big data from 2015-2024. She has supervised twenty doctoral students and three post-doctoral fellows