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Fan Li, PhD

Associate Professor of Biostatistics
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Associate Professor of Biostatistics

Biography

Dr. Fan Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health. He received his PhD in Biostatistics from Duke University in 2019, and joined the Yale Biostatistics faculty in July, 2019.

Dr. Li’s research interests include statistical methods for randomized clinical trials, observational studies and a combination of both. He is an expert in the design, monitoring, analysis of parallel-arm, crossover and stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials, which are increasingly seen in pragmatic clinical trials embedded in the health care delivery systems. He has also contributed novel propensity score methods and software to estimate average causal effects with observational data, aimed at improving overlap and internal validity. His recent methods research include generalizability of randomized trials to external target populations, confirmatory or exploratory heterogeneity of treatment effects analyses, complex endpoints in cluster randomized trials, as well as novel study designs to address patient-centered clinical research questions. His methodological research has been supported by multiple NIH and PCORI grants/awards.

Appointments

Education & Training

PhD
Duke University, Biostatistics (2019)

Research

Overview

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Causality; Comparative Effectiveness Research; Epidemiologic Methods; Longitudinal Studies; Machine Learning; Mediation Analysis; Multilevel Analysis; Observational Study; Pragmatic Clinical Trial; Propensity Score; Randomized Controlled Trial; Research Design; Selection Bias; Survival Analysis

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Fan Li's published research.

Publications

2024

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    Statistics in Medicine

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    Clinical Trials (Journal of the Society for Clinical Trials)

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    Implementation Science

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    Epidemiologic Methods

  • honor

    Early Career Investigator Research Award

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  • 135 College Street

    Academic Office

    Ste Suite 200, Rm Room 229

    New Haven, CT 06510