I am an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University. My research interests lie in developing and improving systems to support ethical, equitable, and robust decision making. We develop and apply methodologies in causal inference, algorithmic fairness, and machine learning to systems-level problems in public health, focusing on health inequities produced by structural injustice and policy impact. I was fortunate to complete my PhD in Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University under the guidance of Euan Ashley and Trevor Hastie, and obtained a BS in Applied Mathematics from UCLA (more).
.The group is recruiting! We have openings on a rolling basis for postdocs and JHU students. Please reach out via email at etchin [at] jhu.edu with your interests, CV, and a brief description of yourself. For all prospective students (not at JHU), consider applying to the Biostatistics program and mention my name in your application.
If you’re interested in my work, share interests, and/or potentially want to collaborate, don’t hesitate to reach out. We're especially interested in collaborating with other researchers in AI ethics, AI/healthcare regulation, and systems-level approaches for health equity. You can contact me at etchin [at] jhu.edu or follow me on Twitter, Mastodon, or Threads.
A complete list of publications is available on Google Scholar
Potential for Allocative Harm in an Environmental Justice Data Tool (Preprint)
Benjamin Q. Huynh*, Elizabeth T. Chin*, Allison Koenecke, Derek Ouyang, Daniel E. Ho, Mathew V. Kiang, David H. Rehkopf
Protection against Omicron from Vaccination and Previous Infection in a Prison System (New England Journal of Medicine, 2022)
Elizabeth T. Chin, David Leidner, Lauren Lamson, Kimberly Lucas, David Studdert, Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, Jason Andrews, Joshua Salomon
Trends in Decarceration, COVID-19 Cases, and SARS-CoV-2 Testing in US Immigration Detention Centers From September 2020 to August 2021 (JAMA Network Open, 2022)
Nishant Uppal, Elizabeth T. Chin, Parsa Erfani, Raquel Sophia Sandoval, Caroline H Lee, Ranit Mishori, Katherine R Peeler
Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill (Nature Sustainability, 2021)
Benjamin Q Huynh, Laura H Kwong, Mathew V Kiang, Elizabeth T Chin, Amir M Mohareb, Aisha O Jumaan, Sanjay Basu, Pascal Geldsetzer, Fatima M Karaki, David H Rehkopf
mRNA-1273 vaccine effectiveness during a SARS-CoV-2 delta outbreak in prison (New England Journal of Medicine, 2021)
Elizabeth T. Chin, David Leidner, Yifan Zhang, Elizabeth Long, Lea Prince, Ying Li, Jason Andrews, David Studdert, Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, Joshua Salomon
Covid-19 in the California State Prison System: An Observational Study of Decarceration, Ongoing Risks, and Risk Factors (Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2021)
Elizabeth T. Chin*, Theresa Ryckman*, Lea Prince, David Leidner, Fernando Alarid-Escudero, Jason Andrews, Joshua Salomon, David Studdert, Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert
Covid-19 Vaccine Acceptance in California State Prisons (New England Journal of Medicine, 2021)
Elizabeth T. Chin, David Leidner, Theresa Ryckman, Yiran Liu, Lea Prince, Fernando Alarid-Escudero, Jason Andrews, Joshua Salomon, Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, David Studdert
Routine asymptomatic testing strategies for airline travel during the COVID-19 pandemic: a simulation analysis (The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2021)
Mathew Kiang, Elizabeth T. Chin, Benjamin Huynh, Lloyd Chapman, Isabel Rodríguez-Barraquer, Bryan Greenhouse, George Rutherford, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Diane Havlir, Sanjay Basu, Nathan Lo
Projected geographic disparities in health-care worker absenteeism from COVID-19 school closures and the economic feasibility of child care subsidies: a simulation study (BMC Medicine, 2020)
Elizabeth T. Chin*, Benjamin Huynh*, Nathan Lo, Trevor Hastie, Sanjay Basu
Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Implicate Intrinsic Impaired Contractility in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (Circulation, 2020)
Sharon Paige*, Francisco Galdos*, Soah Lee*, Elizabeth T. Chin*, Sara Ranjbarvaziri, Dries Feyen, Adrija Darsha, Sidra Xu, Julia Ryan, Aimee Beck, M Yasir Qureshi, Yifei Miao, Mingxia Gu, Daniel Bernstein, Timothy Nelson, Mark Mercola, Marlene Rabinovitch, Euan Ashley, Victoria Parikh, Sean Wu
Pathologic gene network rewiring implicates PPP1R3A as a central regulator in pressure overload heart failure (Nature Communications, 2019)
Pablo Cordero, Victoria Parikh, Elizabeth T. Chin, Ayca Erbilgin, Michael Gloudemans, Ching Shang, Yong Huang, Alex Chang, Kevin Smith, Frederick Dewey, Kathia Zaleta, Michael Morley, Jeff Brandimarto, Nicole Glazer, Daryl Waggott, Aleksandra Pavlovic, Mingming Zhao, Christine Moravec, WH Wilson Tang, Jamie Skreen, Christine Malloy, Sridhar Hannenhalli, Hongzhe Li, Scott Ritter, Mingyao Li, Daniel Bernstein, Andrew Connolly, Hakon Hakonarson, Aldons Lusis, Kenneth Margulies, Anna Depaoli-Roach, Stephen Montgomery, Matthew Wheeler, Thomas Cappola, Euan Ashley
* Co-first author