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Meet our new faculty: Laura Balzer, biostatistics

By Public Affairs

Laura Balzer smiles at the camera in the sun
Laura Balzer is a new member of the UC Berkeley faculty. (Photo by Nick Diehl)
Laura Balzer smiles at the camera in the sun

Laura Balzer is a new member of the UC Berkeley faculty. (Photo by Nick Diehl)

Name: Laura Balzer (she/her)
Discipline: Biostatistics
Degrees: B.S., applied math, University of Vermont, 2008; M.Phil., computational biology, Cambridge, 2009; Ph.D., biostatistics, UC Berkeley, 2015
Research interests: Improving community health through causal inference and machine learning.
Fun fact: Running, hiking, playing with my rescue dogs, going to concerts