Layla Parast

Layla Mosama Parast Bartroff is an American biostatistician whose research involves surrogate markers, predictive modelling, survival analysis, causal inference, and health care quality. Formerly a senior statistician and co-director of the Center for Causal Inference at the RAND Corporation, she is an associate professor of statistics and data sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also a frequent newspaper and news magazine editorial writer on issues related to public health, supported as a Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project. Provided by Wikipedia