Holly Shulman

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Holly B. Shulman is an American statistician in the Division of Reproductive Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a developer of the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System for the CDC,[1] and the former president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics.[2] As well as her work on the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, her publications include highly cited work on abortion-related deaths.

Early life and education

Shulman is originally from Atlanta, Georgia, where she was an honors student in mathematics. Her interest in statistics began in a high school mathematics summer program, part of the Georgia Governor's Honors Program. She majored in mathematics at Georgia Tech, and went on to do a master's degree in statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.[1]

Career and later life

Shulman has worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for over 35 years.[1] She was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics for 1999,[2] and chaired the American Statistical Association's Committee on Women in Statistics in 2000.[1]

Selected publications

  • Lawson, Herschel W.; Frye, Alice; Atrash, Hani K.; Smith, Jack C.; Shulman, Holly B.; Ramick, Merrell (November 1994), "Abortion mortality, United States, 1972 through 1987", American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 171 (5): 1365–1372, doi:10.1016/0002-9378(94)90162-7, PMID 7977548
  • Gilbert, Brenda Colley; Shulman, Holly B.; Fischer, Laurie A.; Rogers, Mary M. (1999), Maternal and Child Health Journal, vol. 3 (4 ed.), pp. 199–209, doi:10.1023/a:1022325421844, PMID 10791360, S2CID 35868551
  • Bartlett, Linda A.; Berg, Cynthia J.; Shulman, Holly B.; Zane, Suzanne B.; Green, Clarice A.; Whitehead, Sara; Atrash, Hani K. (April 2004), "Risk Factors for Legal Induced Abortion–Related Mortality in the United States", Obstetrics & Gynecology, 103 (4): 729–737, doi:10.1097/01.aog.0000116260.81570.60, PMID 15051566
  • Shulman, Holly B.; Gilbert, Brenda Colley; Lansky, Amy (January 2006), "The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS): Current Methods and Evaluation of 2001 Response Rates", Public Health Reports, 121 (1): 74–83, doi:10.1177/003335490612100114, PMC 1497801, PMID 16416701
  • Shulman, Holly B.; D'Angelo, Denise V.; Harrison, Leslie; Smith, Ruben A.; Warner, Lee (October 2018), "The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS): Overview of Design and Methodology", American Journal of Public Health, 108 (10): 1305–1313, doi:10.2105/ajph.2018.304563, PMC 6137777, PMID 30138070

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Holly Shulman", A statistician's life: Celebrating women in statistics, AmStat News, American Statistical Association, March 1, 2022, retrieved 2023-12-06
  2. ^ a b Presidents 1971–2020 (PDF), Caucus for Women in Statistics, retrieved 2023-12-06

External links

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