Martina Pavlicova, PhD

Martina Pavlicova is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health. Her research interests include clinical trials, generalized longitudinal mixed effect statistical models, zero-inflated models, and analysis of categorical data. Dr. Pavlicova is the Director of the Statistics, Data Science, and Data Management Core at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) and Columbia University. She is also the senior biostatistician for the Greater New York (GNY) Node of NIDA’s Clinical Trials Network, for the Clinical Trials Network Coordinating Center (CTNCC) for Lyme and other Tick-Borne Diseases, for the NYSPI STARS division, and for the Division of Behavioral Medicine at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Pavlicova is also interested in new methods of teaching statistics and biostatistics and developing new teaching approaches for non-statistics master’s and Ph.D students. In 2012, she was granted membership in ASPH/Pfizer Public Health Academy of Distinguished Teachers and in 2016, she won the prestigious Presidential Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching at Columbia University.