Stephanie Shiau, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers)
Biography
Stephanie Shiau, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an associate professor with tenure within the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Rutgers School of Public Health, where she serves as Epidemiology Concentration Leader. She earned her bachelor's degree in public health studies from Johns Hopkins University and her master’s in public health and doctoral degree in epidemiology from Columbia University, where she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center. She is an alumna of the Sustained Training in Aging and HIV Research (STAHR) Scholars Program at the University of California, San Diego.
Dr. Shiau is committed to mentoring the next generation of epidemiologists and fostering supportive research and learning environments. She serves as Co-Chair of the Mentoring Committee for the Society for Epidemiologic Research and completed the Mentoring the Mentors Program at the University of California, San Francisco.
Research Interests
At Rutgers, Dr. Shiau has established a research program that sits at the intersection of life course epidemiology, infectious diseases, and aging. She studies how infectious diseases and related exposures during critical periods across the life course shape long-term health trajectories, multimorbidity, and healthy aging. To address these questions, she applies epidemiologic and statistical methods to clinical, molecular, and real-world data in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams. Currently, Dr. Shiau’s active research portfolio is funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Shiau Research Group: https://sites.rutgers.edu/shiau-group