Ellie Murray, ScD

Ellie Murray is currently an assistant professor of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. Her research is on causal inference methodology for improving evidence-based decision-making by patients, clinicians, and policymakers. She uses novel statistical methods to answer comparative effectiveness questions for complex and time-varying treatments using observational data and randomized trials when available, and individual-level simulation modeling when insufficient data exist in the time frame required for decision-making. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Murray became well known for her use of social media, where she shares complex epidemiological concepts using Twitter threads and GIFs to explain research findings and to debunk coronavirus-related pseudoscience to the general public.