Eloise Kaizar, professor in the Department of Statistics, has been appointed chair of the department for a four-year term, effective July 1, 2023.

Kaizar’s research focuses on meta-analysis and survey sampling to assess the effectiveness and safety of health care interventions. Kaizar says of her work, “Research synthesis can be used to dramatically reduce the cost of important discoveries” and to handle the impact of missing data or causal interference on individual statistical analyses. She continues, “It is also the only practical way to answer some system-wide questions or empirically evaluate interventions for diverse and fragile populations.”

Kaizar received her BA in classics and BS in chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh in 1998 and MS and PhD in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002 and 2006, respectively. Kaizar joined the statistics faculty at The Ohio State University in 2006 and currently serves as Vice Chair for Undergraduate Studies and Administration in the department. She also advances statistical applications in medicine as chair of the Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship Committee.