James Robins

James M. Robins
Robins at the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach in 2012
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Washington University in St. Louis Harvard University
Awards	Nathan Mantel Award (2013), Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics (2022)
Scientific career
Fields	Epidemiology Biostatistics
Institutions	Harvard School of Public Health

James M. Robins is an epidemiologist and biostatistician best known for advancing methods for drawing causal inferences from complex observational studies and randomized trials, particularly those in which the treatment varies with time. He is the 2013 recipient of the Nathan Mantel Award for lifetime achievement in statistics and epidemiology, and a recipient of the 2022 Rousseeuw Prize in Statistics, jointly with Miguel Hernán, Eric Tchetgen-Tchetgen, Andrea Rotnitzky and Thomas Richardson.^[1]

He graduated in medicine from Washington University in St. Louis in 1976. He is currently Mitchell L. and Robin LaFoley Dong Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He has published over 100 papers in academic journals and is an ISI highly cited researcher.^[2]