Lianne Sheppard

Elizabeth Anne (Lianne) Sheppard is an American statistician. She specializes in biostatistics and environmental statistics, and in particular in the effects of air quality on health. She is a Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and a Professor of Biostatistics in the University of Washington School of Public Health.[1]

Contributions

In 2016, Sheppard was chosen to chair a panel of the United States Environmental Protection Agency to examine in what quantities nitrogen oxides are harmful.[2] However, in 2018 the Trump administration replaced the Sheppard and other academic experts on the panel with public health officials, at the same time disbanding a related panel on particulate pollution. Sheppard was quoted as saying that these changes would "result in poorer-quality scientific oversight".[3] Sheppard is also a participant in a lawsuit against new agency rules preventing scientists funded by the agency from serving on its panels, a move that caused her to step away from a three-million-dollar grant.[4]

Education

Sheppard graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1979, and returned to Johns Hopkins for a master's degree in biostatistics in 1985. She completed her Ph.D. in biostatistics in 1992 at the University of Washington.[1] Her dissertation, Aggregate Data Methods for Relative Risk Parameter Estimation in Diet and Disease Prevention Research, was supervised by Ross L. Prentice.[5]

Recognition

Sheppard was chosen as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2006, "for contributions to observational studies and environmental occupational epidemiology; for thoughtful commentary in science-policy areas; and for commitment to bringing statistical methodology to elementary and high school education.[6]

References
  1. "Lianne Sheppard", Faculty, University of Washington School of Public Health, retrieved 2018-10-29
  2. Washington Professor Chairs EPA Panel to Review Nitrogen Oxides Standards, Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health, July 7, 2016
  3. Friedman, Lisa (October 11, 2018), "E.P.A. to Disband a Key Scientific Review Panel on Air Pollution", The New York Times
  4. Miller, Hayley (January 24, 2018), "Scientists Sue EPA Over 'Attempt To Delegitimize Science': They argue Administrator Scott Pruitt's purge of independent advisers was unlawful and unprecedented", Huffington Post
  5. Lianne Sheppard at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. Plenary & Awards Sessions presented at the 166th Annual Meeting (PDF), American Statistical Association and Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, p. 13, retrieved 2018-10-29
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