Danielle Braun

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Biography

Danielle Braun is a Principal Research scientist in the Biostatistics Department at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and at the Department of Data Science at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Her areas of research include risk prediction, genetic epidemiology, measurement error, survival analysis, frailty models, clinical tool development, causal inference, and environmental health. As a Principal Research Scientist Danielle co-leads the BayesMendel lab and is Director of Data Science for Environmental and Climate Health in the NSAPH group.

Software Contributions

BayesMendel R package: BayesMendel
PanelPRO R package: Fam3PRO
ASK2ME Risk Prediction Tool: ASK2ME
MyLynch: MyLynch
CausalGPS R package: CausalGPS

Education and Training

• BS, Mathematics, minor Economics
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• AM, Biostatistics
  Harvard University
• PhD, Biostatistics
  Harvard University

Publications

• Adjusting for Ascertainment Bias in Meta-Analysis of Penetrance for Cancer Risk.

  Ruberu TLM, Braun D, Parmigiani G, Biswas S. Stat Med 2025 Feb 10

  PMID: 39865362

• Extreme Heat and Hospitalization Among Older Persons With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias.

  Delaney SW, Stegmuller A, Mork D, Mock L, Bell ML, Gill TM, Braun D, Zanobetti A. JAMA Intern Med 2025 Feb 03

  PMID: 39899291

• The impacts of air pollution on mortality and hospital readmission among Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias: a national retrospective cohort study in the USA.

  Dong S, Braun D, Wu X, Yitshak-Sade M, Blacker D, Kioumourtzoglou MA, Schwartz J, Mork D, Dominici F, Zanobetti A. Lancet Planet Health 2025

  PMID: 39986315

• Comparing traditional and causal inference methodologies for evaluating impacts of long-term air pollution exposure on hospitalization with Alzheimer disease and related dementias.

  Qin MM, Khoshnevis N, Dominici F, Braun D, Zanobetti A, Mork D. Am J Epidemiol 2025 Jan 08

  PMID: 38907309

• The effect of air pollution on hospitalizations with Parkinson's disease among medicare beneficiaries nationwide.

  Wang VA, Delaney S, Flynn LE, Racette BA, Miller GW, Braun D, Zanobetti A, Mork D. NPJ Parkinsons Dis 2024 Oct 24

  PMID: 39448632