Michael Stoto, Ph.D., is a Professor of Health Systems Administration and Population Health. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. An epidemiologist, statistician, and health policy analyst, Dr. Stoto previously served on the faculty of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, and the RAND Graduate School. Before coming to Georgetown on a full-time basis in August 2006, Dr. Stoto was a Senior Statistician at the RAND Corporation and the Associate Director for Public Health in the Center for Domestic and International Health Security. From 1987 to 1998 he was a professional staff member at the Institute of Medicine (IOM), where served as director of the Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and led numerous projects in public health practice. Dr. Stoto received an AB from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, both in Statistics.

Dr. Stoto has extensive experience in the development of statistical and epidemiological methods and their application to guide public health policy formation and public health practice. His research experience includes methodological topics in epidemiology, statistics, and demography, research synthesis/meta-analysis, community health assessment, risk analysis and communication, and performance measurement, as well as substantive topics in public health and infectious disease policy and other aspects of public health practice. He has extensive experience using quantitative and qualitative methods in public health surveillance; case studies of public health practice, especially with regard to preparedness; the evaluation of public health interventions, community health assessment, confidentiality in health information systems, and other issues. Dr. Stoto is currently leading the Evaluation core for the Harvard School of Public Health Center for Public Health Preparedness. He has worked with the District of Columbia Department of Health to evaluate its hospital emergency room syndromic surveillance system, and has published extensively in related areas. Dr. Stoto is also leading a multi-site project investigating regional approaches to public health preparedness, through case studies in four sites.