When Zach joined the faculty of the CUNY School of Public Health, he entered the family business.
His father was a professor at Hunter College for decades, and his wife received her MPH from CUNY. Zach received his PhD in statistics from Columbia University advised by David Madigan, was a postdoc at the Harvard School of Public Health supervised by Jamie Robins and Miguel Hernan, and worked at IBM Research in the Department of Healthcare and Life Sciences.
Degrees
PhD in Statistics and Probability from Columbia University
BA in Mathematics from Stanford University
Research Interests
Theory and application of causal inference methods to estimate time-varying treatment effects using healthcare data. Critical care applications, and causal inference methodology.