Dr. Anderson is an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University in the Department of Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences and a Faculty Associate in the Department of Statistics. She is actively involved in the university’s Partnership of Air Quality, Climate, and Health and serves on the editorial boards of Epidemiology and Environmental Health Perspectives. Previously, she completed a postdoctoral appointment in Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and earned her PhD in Engineering from Yale University. Her research focuses on health risks related to climate-related exposures, such as heat waves and air pollution, and she has conducted several national-level studies. Dr. Anderson has also developed open-source R software packages to enhance environmental epidemiologic research.

Dr. Roger D. Peng is a Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and serves as a Co-Editor of the Simply Statistics blog. He earned his PhD in Statistics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is recognized for his research in air pollution, health risk assessment, and statistical methods for environmental data. In 2016, he received the Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association, honoring his significant contributions to health statistics. Dr. Peng developed the Statistical Programming course at Johns Hopkins to equip students with essential computational tools for data analysis. Additionally, he is a national leader in promoting reproducible research practices and serves as the Reproducible Research editor for the journal Biostatistics. His interdisciplinary research has been published in prestigious journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association and the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. He has authored over a dozen software packages that implement statistical methods for environmental studies and reproducible research, and he regularly conducts workshops and tutorials on statistical computing and data analysis.