About Me

I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University advised by Dr. Francesca Dominici. My research interests include causal inference, spatial statistics, and environmental health. I am currently working on developing methods to address unmeasured spatial confounding. I joined the National Studies of Air Pollution and Health (NSAPH) research group in 2021.

Publications

• Woodward, S.M., Tec, M. & Dominici, F. (2024). An Instrumental Variables Framework to Unite Spatial Confounding Methods. Arxiv preprint. (Submitted.)
• Tec, M., Trisovic, A., Audirac M., Woodward, S.M., Hu, J., Khoshnevis, N. & Dominici, F. (2024). SpaCE: The Spatial Confounding Environment. International Conference on Learning Representations.
• Woodward, S.M., Mork, D., Wu, X., Hou, Z., Braun, D., & Dominici, F. (2023). Combining Aggregate and Individual-level Data to Estimate Individual-level Associations Between Air Pollution and COVID-19 Mortality in the United States. PLOS Global Public Health.
• Woodward, S.M. & Wu, X. (2023). Review 1: Long-term Outdoor Air Pollution and COVID-19 Mortality in London: an Individual-level Analysis. Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases.
• Field, R.D., Moelis N., Salzman J., Bax, A., Ausiello, D., Woodward, S.M., Wu, X., Dominici, F., Edwards, D.A. (2021). Inhaled Water and Salt Suppress Respiratory Droplet Generation and COVID-19 Incidence and Death on US Coastlines. Molecular Frontiers Journal.

Awards

• 2024 Recipient of the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Award.
• 2022 Recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Presentations

• Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Spring Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 2025.
• Selected student speaker at the Accelerate: Data for Social Impact Conference in June 2024.
• American Causal Inference Conference (ACIC), Seattle, WA, May 2024.

Education

• M.A. in Biostatistics, Harvard University, 2024.
• B.A. in Statistics and Mathematics, Harvard University, 2022.