Naihua Duan (; born 31 October 1949) is a Taiwanese biostatistician specializing in mental health services and policy research at

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

. Duan is a professor of biostatistics (in psychiatry) with tenure in the Departments of Psychiatry and Biostatistics at

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, and a senior research scientist at NYSPI.

Education and career

Duan received a B.S. in

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from

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; zh, t=國立臺灣大學, poj=Kok-li̍p Tâi-oân Tāi-ha̍k, p=, s=) is a National university, national Public university, public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. Founded in 1928 during Taiwan under J ...

, an M.A. in mathematical statistics from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in

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from

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. He is an elected fellow of the

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and the

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. He has also served as a member of the editorial board for Statistica Sinica and Health Services & Outcomes Research Methodology, and associate editor for the

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. In addition, he served on a number of national and international panels, such as the

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's Committee on Organ Procurement and Transplantation Policy and Committee on Assessing the Medical Risks of Human Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research; the National Research Council's Committee on Carbon Monoxide Episodes in Meteorological and Topological Problems Areas; and the

National Institute of Mental Health The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is one of 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH, in turn, is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is the primar ...

’s Behavioral Sciences Workgroup.

References

External links

*Duan, N. (no date) A Quest for Evidence Beyond Evidence-Based Medicine: Unleashing Clinical Experience through Evidence Farming.
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Manuscript, University of California, Davis.
Department of Psychiatry
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Taiwanese statisticians Living people Biostatisticians Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni National Taiwan University alumni Columbia University faculty Stanford University alumni Fellows of the American Statistical Association Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics 1949 births Academic journal editors 20th-century Taiwanese mathematicians 21st-century Taiwanese mathematicians Taiwanese expatriates in the United States {{statistician-stub