Heather Allore, PhD, founded the field of gerontological biostatistics to help researchers have the tools necessary to understand how to design and analyze research relevant and important to the lives and well-being of older adults. Led by Dr. Allore, the Design and Statistics Core connects these methods to all aspects of the IMPACT Collaboratory. She is the leader of the Data Management and Statistics Core of the Yale Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Dr. Allore previously served as Director of Biostatistics at the Yale Program on Aging. Her international collaborations, helping to improve the lives of people living with dementia, cover Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

Keith Goldfeld, DrPH, MS, MPA, is a biostatistician whose work focuses on health services research, cluster randomized trials, and Bayesian methods for complex trial designs. His research collaborations span palliative and geriatric care, addiction, and pragmatic clinical trials. As a graduate student at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, his research focused on the relationship between palliative care and quality-adjusted survival among nursing home residents with dementia. As associate professor in the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, he is currently collaborating on ED-LEAD, an NIH-funded study to improve care for people living with dementia. He has also contributed to major NIH-funded trials including PRIM-ER, EMPallA, and HAS-QOL. In addition, he developed simstudy, an R package that enables researchers and students to generate simulated data for a wide range of research study designs, which he showcases on his blog ouR data generation.

Fan Li, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health, a faculty member in the Yale Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS), the Yale Center for Analytical Sciences (YCAS), as well as an affiliated faculty member of the Yale Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC). He received his PhD in Biostatistics from Duke University in 2019 and joined the Yale Biostatistics faculty the same year. His primary research interests are in developing causal inference methods for both observational studies and pragmatic clinical trials, including those employing cluster randomization and stepped wedge designs. His methodological contributions span causal mediation analysis, principal stratification, treatment effect heterogeneity, selection bias, and techniques for improving both internal and external validity in treatment comparisons across diverse study designs. Dr. Li has been the principal investigator of multiple NIH- and PCORI-funded awards. He has published over 170 peer-reviewed articles in statistical methodology and collaborative research, advancing the design and analysis of clinical and population health studies.

Joan Monin, PhD, MS, is a professor with tenure at the Yale School of Public Health. Her research examines how emotional and social support processes affect health in older adult relationships. Dr. Monin’s research combines survey methods and laboratory experiments to understand the mechanisms (e.g., emotional contagion, cardiovascular reactivity) and moderators (gender, individual differences in attachment) involved in these processes. Currently, her research focuses on understanding how caregivers and care recipients support one another in the early stages of dementia. In this work, she uses dyadic analysis techniques to take into account partner influences on outcomes. These findings about relationship dynamics in the context of caregiving are then translated to inform supportive programs for families living with dementia.

Thomas Travison, PhD, is a biostatistician and clinical trialist. His work is focused on observational and interventional science intended to promote functional independence and to prevent the development and progression of frailty. Dr. Travison is an internationally recognized expert in the epidemiology of age-associated changes in circulating sex steroid concentrations and their contribution to functional and cognitive aging. He has designed and analyzed numerous clinical trials of multimodal interventions in complex older populations. His laboratory focuses on the development and dissemination of tools and methodologies promoting reproducible quantitative and biomedical science.