Tanya Pamela Garcia is a Peruvian-American biostatistician whose research applies robust statistics to understand the progression of neurodegenerative diseases including Huntington's disease, and to classify gut microbiota. She is an associate professor of biostatistics in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.[1] She is the 2025 chair of the Biometrics Section of the American Statistical Association.[2]