Howard Cabral, Ph.D.

Howard J. Cabral, Ph.D., M.P.H., is Professor of Biostatistics at the Boston University School of Public Health, where he has been on the faculty since 1998. He is founding Director of the Biostatistics and Research Design Program at the Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and a former director of the university’s Biostatistics Graduate Program. He earned his Ph.D. in biostatistics and his M.P.H. in epidemiology at Boston University, after a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross. His methodological work spans longitudinal data analysis, randomized clinical trials in behavioral and health services research, missing data, and risk prediction models, applied across cardiovascular health, substance use, HIV, maternal health and cancer genetics. He has authored more than 450 peer-reviewed publications and contributed to the development of the widely cited BODE Index for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He serves as a statistical editor for Birth and the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, and has received the Norman A. Scotch Award for Excellence in Teaching.