Jessica Young

Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School


Dr. Jessica Young is an Assistant Professor and Biostatistician in the Department of Population Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. The focus of her research is the theoretical development and application of methods that, under explicit assumptions, may answer questions about the causal effects of treatments using data from real-world observational studies with all of its inherent complications. Her work has also focused on increasing applied researchers' access to these methods and ideas through education and software.