Emma Davies Smith is a Research Scientist at the Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research within the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She serves as lead statistician for the REPRIEVE trial, lead statistician for IMPAACT 2016, and statistical representative for IMPAACT’s Brain and Mental Health Scientific Committee and Implementation Science Core. She holds a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Western Ontario, where she developed statistical methods for cluster randomized trials with multiple ordinal endpoints. Her work is driven by a commitment to clinically meaningful inference — developing and applying statistical methods that inform risk-benefit trade-offs faced by care providers and people with HIV. Her applied statistical projects have been cited by US Health and Human Services treatment guidelines and she is a two-time recipient of the CROI New Investigator Scholarship.
When she’s not working on expanding her knowledge of statistics, she’s busy petting cats and unsuccessfully convincing her husband Ethan to let her adopt them, hiking, canoeing, and concocting indie and folk-rock playlists.