Megan Price
{{For|the fictional character, Megan Price|Bridesmaids (2011 film)}}
{{Short description|Director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Megan E. Price
| image = Megan Price at Women in Data Science 2017.jpg
| caption = Price interviewed at Women in Data Science 2017
| alma_mater = Case Western Reserve University
Rollins School of Public Health
| employer = Human Rights Data Analysis Group
}}
Megan E. Price is Executive Director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. She collects and analyses data to investigate violations to human rights.
Early life and education
Price studied statistics at Case Western Reserve University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.oreilly.com/people/82bfd-megan-price|title=Megan Price - O'Reilly Media|website=www.oreilly.com|language=en|access-date=2018-06-30}} She earned a PhD in biostatistics from the Rollins School of Public Health in 2009.{{Cite web|url=http://news.emory.edu/stories/2018/01/hspub_price_stats_for_human_rights/campus.html|title=Calculations for the greater good|date=2018-01-26|website=news.emory.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-06-30}} She completed a Certificate in Human Rights at Emory University. As soon as she graduated she began working with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group.
Career
Price has worked on strategies for the statistical analysis of human rights data in Colombia, Syria and Guatemala. Whilst in Guatemala, Price analysed documents from the National Police Archives. In Syria she was commissioned by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to act as lead statistician on two reports.{{Cite news|url=https://hrdag.org/syria/|title=HRDAG|access-date=2018-06-30|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=https://crcs.seas.harvard.edu/event/megan-price|title=Megan Price: "How Machine Learning Helps Count Casualties in Syria"|website=crcs.seas.harvard.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-06-30}} She is a Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in the Centre for Human Rights Science.{{Cite news|url=https://hrdag.org/people/megan-price-phd/|title=Megan Price, PhD|work=HRDAG|access-date=2018-06-30|language=en-US}}
She was made Director of Research at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group in 2013. She was appointed Executive Director in 2015.{{Cite web|url=https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/press-releases/open-society-foundations-announce-recipients-new-executives-fund-award|title=Open Society Foundations Announce Recipients of New Executives Fund Award|website=Open Society Foundations|language=en|access-date=2018-06-30}} In 2016 she was awarded an Open Society Foundations New Executive Fund.{{Cite news|url=https://www.cmu.edu/chrs/news-events/2016/megan-price-awarded-grant.html|title=CHRS Fellow Megan Price awarded Open Society Foundations New Executives Fund Grant - Center for Human Rights Science - Carnegie Mellon University|last=University|first=Carnegie Mellon|date=2016|access-date=2018-06-30|language=en}} Price is on the editorial board of Significance magazine. She was a participant at the 2018 Science Foo Camp. She was elected chair of the American Statistical Association's Social Statistics program in 2021.{{Cite news|title=2021 ASA Election Results|url=https://www.amstat.org/asa/files/pdfs/2021-ASAElectionResults.pdf}} In 2022, she was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.{{Cite news|title=ASA Fellows 2022|url=https://www.amstat.org/docs/default-source/amstat-documents/pdfs/fellows/fellows2022.pdf}}
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