Amita Manatunga
PhD
Dr. Manatunga is involved in collaborative research in clinical studies including mental health, cardiology and kidney diseases.
Titles and Roles
- Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
- Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University
- Research Program
- Cancer Prevention and Control
Biography
Anita Manatunga, PhD, first joined the Emory University faculty back in 1994. Today, Dr. Manatunga is Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the Rollins School of Public Health. She works as the primary biostatistician at the NIH-funded Emory University General Clinical Research Center (GCRC).
Dr. Manatunga is member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. She is also a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She has served on several committees of the ENAR, International Biometrics Society and over the years, she has also served on numerous NIH Study Sections.
Education
Dr. Manatunga obtained her PhD in Statistics and her MA also in Statistics from the Univeristy of Rochester in New York. She also received MSc in Statistics from Purdue University in Indiana.
Research
Dr. Manatunga's current research areas include analytical methods for environmental and reproductive health, multivariate survival analysis and predictive statistical models in renal imaging.
Publications
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Awards
Dr. Manatunga received the Thomas Sellers Award from Rollins School of Public Health.