Tania Bibiana Huedo Medina

Dr. Tania Huedo-Medina is an Ikerbasque Research Professor, currently working as a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country, and an affiliate professor at George Mason University and the University of Connecticut.

Dr. Huedo-Medina holds a PhD in Biostatistics for Health and Social Sciences from the Complutense and Autonoma Universities of Madrid, Spain. She also has an MSc in Biostatistics and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology. She was the Director of the Biostatistics Core at the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy at the University of Connecticut, where she also launched a research initiative between Cuba and the University of Connecticut to reduce health disparities.

With over two decades of academic and clinical experience in Spain and the U.S., Dr. Huedo-Medina has a strong background in analytical statistics development. Her main scholarly focus involves modeling factors and analyzing determinants of health behavior change using advanced statistical techniques that integrate individual psychological processes, biological influences, and a wide range of social and environmental factors.

Her work has led to collaborations with scholars from various health-related disciplines to apply the most advanced statistical techniques available. She has drawn from these experiences to publish numerous methodological and statistical articles that advance the field of applied statistics. Her broad expertise in health sciences, combined with her statistical knowledge, allows her to contribute significantly to the understanding and modeling of health-related outcomes, promoting methodological sophistication across various research fields.

Dr. Huedo-Medina's current research goal is to study the interactions of health determinants using multilevel modeling techniques on complex topics like substance use, obesity, HIV, chronic pain, and cancer. Her research has been continuously funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and other agencies. She has published over 200 articles and has been a principal or co-investigator in numerous long-term projects throughout her scientific career.