Michael A. Stoto, PhD, is a Professor of Health Systems Administration and Population Health. A statistician, epidemiologist, and health policy analyst, Dr. Stoto’s research includes methodological topics in epidemiology, statistics, and demography, research synthesis/meta-analysis and other analytical methods related to comparative effectiveness research (CER), community health assessment, risk analysis and communication, and performance measurement. His substantive research interests include public health practice, especially with regard to emergency preparedness; drug and vaccine safety; infectious disease policy; and ethical issues in research and public health practice.

Dr. Stoto is the co-Principal Investigator of the CDC-funded Linking Assessment and Measurement to PHEP Systems Improvement (LAMPS) center based at the Harvard School of Public Health, and the director of the LAMPS Systems Improvement project, which seeks to adopt systems improvement practices for improving public health emergency preparedness. He serves as a consultant to AcademyHealth’s AHRQ-funded Electronic Data Methods Forum, and is the oversight liaison director for Education, Training and Professional Development of the FDA/Georgetown Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI).

Dr. Stoto is also an Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health and an adjunct faculty member of the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. He previously served on the faculty of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, and the RAND Graduate School. Before coming to Georgetown on a full-time basis in August 2006, Dr. Stoto was a Senior Statistician at the RAND Corporation and the Associate Director for Public Health in the Center for Domestic and International Health Security. From 1987 to 1998 he was a professional staff member at the Institute of Medicine (IOM), where served as director of the Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Dr. Stoto is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.