Professor Kiros Berhane is the Cynthia and Robert Citrone-Roslyn and Leslie Goldstein Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics; and Director of the Center for Achieving Resiliency in Climate and Health (C-ARCH) at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Born in Ethiopia, he received his B.Sc. degree (1986) in Statistics from Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia), followed by MS degree in Statistics (University of Guelph, Canada, 1991), PhD degree in Biostatistics (University of Toronto, 1994) and postdoctoral fellowship (Johns Hopkins University, 1994-1995). He is a world renowned academic leader and expert in development of methods for complex data structures on multi-factorial health effects. He has led an extensive portfolio of grants including the GEOHealth Hub for Eastern Africa focusing on health impacts of environmental hazards and climate change, and training programs that include the “Advancing Public Health Research in Eastern Africa through Data Science Training (APHREA-DST)”. He has served on high profile advisory panels including several for the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) and as a member of the core panel for the Lancet Commission on the Future of Health and Economic Resilience of Africa (FHERA). He serves on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including as a member of the Board of Reviewing Editors for the AAAS journal - Science. He was a Fulbright Scholar in 2016-2017. He is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA, 2017), an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI, 2025), an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS, 2024), and an Elected Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS, 2025).
