Kelly H. Zou, Ph.D., PStat® is Head of Global Medical Analytics and Real World Evidence, Viatris Inc. Dr. Zou is Vice Chair of the Methods and Data Council of AcademyHealth.
She is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and an Accredited Professional Statistician. Previously at Pfizer Inc, she was Vice President and Head of Medical Analytics & Insights; Senior Director of Real World Evidence, Group Lead of Methods & Algorithms and Analytic Science Lead; Senior Director of Statistics. She was Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, as well as Director of Biostatistics at its affiliated teaching hospitals. She was Associate Director of Rates at Barclays Capital.
She received both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Statistics from the University of Rochester, following a B.A. in Mathematics (Summa Cum Laude), with a Minor in Physics. She completed her Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard. Her research interests include healthcare policy, big data, and outcomes research, with over 160 professional articles and 5 books.
She has played several leadership roles: Chair, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies Awards; Chair, Statistical Partnerships among Academe, Industry, and Government Committee, American Statistical Association (ASA); Chair, ASA Health Care Policy Statistics Section; Vice Chair, ASA Committee on Applied Statisticians; Treasurer, Healthcare Businesswomen's Association; Member, Board of Directors and Publications Committee, International Chinese Statistical Association; Member, Alumni Board, University of Rochester. She was featured as an Outstanding Woman in Data Analytics by Forbes, an Inspirational Women in Statistics & Data Science by Wiley and the Royal Statistical Society, and an Accomplished Woman in Statistics and Data Science by the ASA.
