Heather Ribaudo (formerly Heather Beacon) is a Research Scientist at the Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research (CBAR) and the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University where she focuses on HIV and AIDS clinical trials research within the AIDS clinical Trials Group (ACTG). Dr. Ribaudo is also the Associate Director of the Biostatistics and Computational Biology core of the Harvard University CFAR.
Her research interests include the design and analysis of clinical trials in AIDS research particularly the choice, evaluation, and monitoring of surrogate endpoints, HIV-1 resistance, viral dynamics, and human genomics. Causal inference models. The analysis of self assessed quality-of-life data in clinical trials: the analysis of continuous repeated measurement data; the implications of missing data; joint analysis of outcome and survival data; and incorporating extra variation due to clustering within repeated events (i.e. multiple dimensional responses over time).