Constantin Yiannoutsos

He graduated from the University of Connecticut with a doctorate degree in Statistics. Prior to joining CUNY SPH, Dr. Yiannoutsos spent almost a decade at Harvard University running clinical trials dealing with neurological sequelae of HIV infection. He then spent over twenty years at Indiana University where he held a number of positions including Director of the IU Cancer Center Biostatistics Facility and Director of Graduate Education. Dr. Yiannoutsos' methodological research is focused on statistical issues in survival analysis and causal methods, particularly addressing biases resulting from missing data in the context of observational studies. He runs a large epidemiological cohort which has been following over 500,000 persons living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania for decades, as part of the IeDEA (www.iedea.org) Collaboration, a worldwide network of HIV care and treatment programs following over 2,000,000 people worldwide. In this capacity, he has provided data and statistical expertise to aid governments, foundations, and international organizations in evidence-based health policy and decision-making with respect to the response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Professor Yiannoutsos has used his expertise with large international HIV/AIDS cohorts to address similar issues domestically, most recently in a study of people living with HIV/AIDS in the state of Indiana. During the COVID epidemic, he was instrumental in using statistical methods to aid in Indiana’s epidemic response. Dr. Yiannoutsos is a passionate teacher who has taught, trained, and mentored hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students around the world and has developed statistics education and training curricula at all levels.