Eben Kenah, ScD
Professor
Biostatistics
“During my childhood, the HIV/AIDS pandemic began its terrible march across continents, bringing with it the lesson that infectious diseases remain extremely dangerous and unpredictable. Working as a biostatistician specializing in infectious disease epidemiology is rewarding both for its mathematical challenges and for its potential impact on public health. I love teaching epidemiologic and statistical methods because clear, rigorous public health research saves lives.”
Education
- ScD
- Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health 2008
- MS
- Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health 2008
- BA
- Harvard University 2001
Research interests
Survival analysis, Epidemiologic methods, Stochastic processes, Phylogenetics and Causal inference
Select publications
- Hegde ST, Sazzad HM, Hossain MJ, Alam MU, Kenah E, Daszak P, Rollin P, Rahman M, Luby SP, Gurley ES. (2016) Investigating Rare Risk Factors for Nipah Virus in Bangladesh: 2001-2012. Ecohealth. 2016 Dec;13(4):720-728. Epub 2016 Oct 13.
- Rojas DP, Dean NE, Yang Y, Kenah E, Quintero J, Tomasi S, Ramirez EL, Kelly Y, Castro C, Carrasquilla G, Halloran ME, Longini IM. (2016) The epidemiology and transmissibility of Zika virus in Girardot and San Andres island, Colombia, September 2015 to January 2016. Euro Surveill. 2016 Jul 14;21(28). doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.28.30283.
- Kenah E, Britton T, Halloran ME, Longini IM Jr. (2016) Molecular Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Survival Analysis and Algorithms Linking Phylogenies to Transmission Trees. PLoS Comput Biol. 2016 Apr 12;12(4):e1004869. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004869. eCollection 2016 Apr.
- Yang Y, Zhang Y, Fang L, Halloran ME, Ma M, Liang S, Kenah E, Britton T, Chen E, Hu J, Tang F, Cao W, Feng Z, Longini IM Jr. (2015) Household transmissibility of avian influenza A (H7N9) virus, China, February to May 2013 and October 2013 to March 2014. Euro Surveill. 2015 Mar 12;20(10):21056.
- E. Kenah (2015). Semiparametric relative-risk regression for infectious disease transmission data. Journal of the American Statistical Association 110(509): 313-325.
- Y. Yang, Y. Zhang, L. Fang, M. E. Halloran, M. Ma, S. Liang, E. Kenah, T. Britton, E. Chen, J. Hu, F. Tang, W. Cao, Z. Feng, and I. M. Longini, Jr. (2015). Household transmissibility of avian influenza A(H7N9) virus, China, February to May 2013 and October 2013 to March 2014. Eurosurveillance 20(10): 21056.
- Y. Yang, M. E. Halloran, Y. Chen, and E. Kenah (2014). A pathway EM algorithm for estimating vaccine efficacy with a non-monotone validation set. Biometrics 70(3): 568–578.
- J. D Sugimoto, A. A. Kroepke, E. Kenah, M. E. Halloran, F. Chowdhury, A. I. Khan, R. C. LaRocque, Y. Yang, E. T. Ryan, F. Qadri, S. B. Calderwood, J. B. Harris, and I. M. Longini, Jr. (2014). Household transmission of Vibrio cholerae in Bangladesh. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 8(11): e3314.
- S. Islam, E. Kenah, M. A. Bhuiyan, K. M. Rahman, B. Goodhew, C. M. Ghalib, M. M. Zahid, M. Ozaki, M. W. Rahman, R. Haque, S. P. Luby, J. H. Maguire, D. Martin, C. Bern (2013). Clinical and immunological aspects of post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis in Bangladesh. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 89(2): 345-353.
- E. Kenah (2013). Nonparametric survival analysis of infectious disease data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 75(2): 277-303.