Michael A. Stoto, PhD, is a Professor of Health Systems Administration and Population Health. An statistician, epidemiologist, and health policy analyst, Dr. Stoto’s research includes methodological topics in epidemiology, statistics, and demography, research synthesis/meta-analysis, community health assessment, risk analysis and communication, and performance measurement, as well as substantive topics in public health practice, especially with regard to preparedness; the evaluation of public health interventions, and 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 (PHEP). He also leads the evaluation team for the DC Healthcare Coalition Emergency Management Partnership grant, and is developing an evaluation toolkit for Medical Reserve Corps deployment in flu clinics.

Dr. Stoto is also an Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health, and co-Principle Investigator of the CDC-funded Public Health Preparedness Research Center. 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, the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, 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 and led numerous projects in public health practice. Dr. Stoto received an AB from Princeton University and a PhD in Statistics from Harvard University, and is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.