Emma Katherine Tara Benn is an American biostatistician whose research includes causal inference in health disparities as a way to help find targets for intervention against these disparities. She works at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she is an associate professor in the Department of Population Health Science, affiliated with the Center for Biostatistics. She is also associate dean of faculty well-being and development, and the founding director of the Center for Scientific Diversity at the Icahn School.[1]