Fan Li is a Chinese-American biostatistician whose research includes causal inference and propensity score matching, and their application to comparative effectiveness research in health care.
[1] Despite knowing nothing of biostatistics, she was encouraged to apply to the biostatistics program Johns Hopkins University by biostatistician Ying Qing Chen, who had recently graduated from the program.
[1] Her dissertation, Statistical Designs and Analyses for Partially Controlled Studies, was supervised by Constantine Frangakis.
[3] After postdoctoral research at the Harvard Medical School, she joined Duke University as an assistant professor in 2008.
[1] Li should not be confused with another (male) statistician named Fan Li, one of her former doctoral students at Duke,[3] who became an assistant professor of biostatistics at Yale University.