{"id":28001,"date":"2023-07-27T12:01:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T16:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=28001"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:20:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:20:42","slug":"debbie-cheng","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/debbie-cheng\/","title":{"rendered":"Debbie M. Cheng"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sph-profile-section sph-profile-section-bio\">\n<div class=\"sph-profile-bio\">\n<p><span>Debbie M. Cheng is a Professor of Biostatistics and Assistant Dean of Data Science at the Boston University School of Public Health, where she is also the founding Executive Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Health Data Science<\/a>. She serves as Director of Strategy and Partnerships for Boston University\u2019s university-wide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI Developmental Accelerator (AIDA)<\/a>. She is also Co-Director of the Providence\/Boston Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). Her research focuses on applied statistics and clinical trial design and analysis, with particular emphasis on the intersection of substance use and HIV. She leads interdisciplinary initiatives that integrate data science with public health and clinical research to advance evidence-based solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.bu.edu\/Debbie.Cheng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BU Profile<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=YZifjckAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":22677,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/28001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22677"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/28001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40815,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/28001\/revisions\/40815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}