Shelley H Liu, PhD

Dr. Shelley Liu is an Associate Professor in Population Health Science and Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, specializing in data science, psychometrics, and biostatistics. Her research focuses on item response theory, latent variable modeling, longitudinal data, and creating summary scores for cross-study harmonization, with applications to exposomics, neurodevelopment, cognitive aging and cardiometabolic health. Dr. Liu is PI of a NICHD K25 Career Development Award and a NIEHS R03. In addition, she collaborates as Co-I on grants in Alzheimer’s Disease, diabetes, health policy, environmental health, and neurodevelopment. She received a PhD in Biostatistics from Harvard University and a BA in Biological Sciences and Statistics from Northwestern University.