Christine Choirat

Christine Choirat, Chief Innovation Officer of the Swiss Data Science Center and former Senior Research Scientist at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has established herself as a pioneering figure in environmental health data science. After earning her Ph.D. in Statistics from Paris Dauphine University in 2003, she has built an influential career combining statistical methodology with environmental and health policy applications. Her groundbreaking research includes major studies on air pollution's health impacts, published in prestigious journals like the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA. As a key contributor to Harvard's environmental health research initiatives, she has developed innovative statistical methods for analyzing large-scale environmental data and their effects on public health. Her work spans high-performance computing, reproducible research, and advanced statistical modeling, with particular focus on air pollution exposure assessment and health outcomes in the Medicare population. Through her roles at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Swiss Data Science Center, she continues to advance the application of data science to critical environmental and public health challenges