Megan E. Price is Executive Director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. She collects and analyses data to investigate violations to human rights.
Megan E. Price | |
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 Price interviewed at Women in Data Science 2017 | |
| Alma mater | Case Western Reserve University Rollins School of Public Health |
| Employer | Human Rights Data Analysis Group |
Early life and education
editPrice studied statistics at Case Western Reserve University.[1] She earned a PhD in biostatistics from the Rollins School of Public Health in 2009.[2] She completed a Certificate in Human Rights at Emory University.[1] As soon as she graduated she began working with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group.[2]
Career
editPrice has worked on strategies for the statistical analysis of human rights data in Colombia, Syria and Guatemala.[1] Whilst in Guatemala, Price analysed documents from the National Police Archives.[1] In Syria she was commissioned by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to act as lead statistician on two reports.[1][3][4] She is a Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in the Centre for Human Rights Science.[5]
She was made Director of Research at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group in 2013. She was appointed Executive Director in 2015.[6] In 2016 she was awarded an Open Society Foundations New Executive Fund.[7] Price is on the editorial board of Significance magazine.[3] She was a participant at the 2018 Science Foo Camp. She was elected chair of the American Statistical Association's Social Statistics program in 2021.[8] In 2022, she was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[9]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Megan Price - O'Reilly Media". www.oreilly.com. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
- ^ a b "Calculations for the greater good". news.emory.edu. 2018-01-26. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
- ^ a b "HRDAG". Retrieved 2018-06-30.
- ^ "Megan Price: "How Machine Learning Helps Count Casualties in Syria"". crcs.seas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
- ^ "Megan Price, PhD". HRDAG. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
- ^ "Open Society Foundations Announce Recipients of New Executives Fund Award". Open Society Foundations. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
- ^ University, Carnegie Mellon (2016). "CHRS Fellow Megan Price awarded Open Society Foundations New Executives Fund Grant - Center for Human Rights Science - Carnegie Mellon University". Retrieved 2018-06-30.
- ^ "2021 ASA Election Results" (PDF).
- ^ "ASA Fellows 2022" (PDF).