Giovanni Parmigiani, PhD

Giovanni Parmigiani, PhD, is a professor of Biostatistics at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Associate Director for Population Sciences at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.



He received his undergraduate degree in economics and social sciences at Università L. Bocconi, and a Masters and PhD in statistics from Carnegie Mellon University. He has held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon, Duke and Johns Hopkins, before joining the faculty at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in 2009 and becoming the Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Dr. Parmigiani is the recipient of numerous awards for his contributions to both science and teaching, including the Advising, Mentoring, and Teaching Recognition Award from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Student Assembly. He was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1999. While completing graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon, he received the Leonard J. Savage Dissertation Prize. His 2009 book on “Decision Theory” received the DeGroot prize. Dr. Parmigiani’s work has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Science, Cancer Research, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, and the American Journal of Human Genetics.