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Susan Allbritton Murphy (born April 16, 1958) is an American statistician, known for her work applying statistical methods to clinical trials of treatments for chronic and relapsing medical conditions. She is a professor at Harvard University, a MacArthur Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Biography and career

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She grew up in rural Louisiana, and is "a serious hockey player."[1] She graduated from Louisiana State University with a B.S. and from the University of North Carolina with a Ph.D.[2] Her 1989 dissertation, Time-Dependent Coefficients in a Cox-Type Regression Model, was supervised by Pranab K. Sen.[3]

Murphy was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Statistics at Pennsylvania State University from fall 1989 to fall 1997.[4] She was an Associate and full Professor of Statistics at the University of Michigan from spring 1998 to summer 2017. She is a Professor of Statistics at Harvard University as of fall 2017. She is also a principal investigator at The Methodology Center, at Penn State.[5]

She is developing "new methodologies to evaluate courses of treatment for individuals coping with chronic or relapsing disorders ... Murphy’s Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) is a means for learning how best to dynamically adapt treatment to each individual’s response over time. Using SMART, clinicians assess and modify patients’ treatments during the trial, an approach with potential applications in the treatment of a range of chronic diseases—such as ADHD, alcoholism, drug addiction, HIV/AIDS, and cardiovascular disease—that involve therapies that are regularly reconsidered and replaced as the disease progresses.[2]

Murphy is a Professor of Statistics at Harvard University and a Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She is also affiliated with Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study as a Radcliffe Alumnae Professor.

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She won a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship.[2] In 2015 she gave the Bradley Lecture at the University of Georgia. In 2016, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[6] She was the R. A. Fisher Lecturer in 2018.[7] In 2018, she was elected president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[8]

She is also a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[9]

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Susan Murphy is an American statistician and computer scientist known for her pioneering development of statistical methods for sequential decision-making and personalized treatment strategies in healthcare. Her work has focused on creating frameworks that enable the design and evaluation of adaptive interventions—tailored sequences of treatments that adjust over time based on a patient's responses—particularly for chronic and relapsing conditions such as depression, substance abuse, and other behavioral health disorders. Murphy holds the Mallinckrodt Professorship of Statistics and of Computer Science at Harvard University, where she also serves as Associate Faculty at the Kempner Institute, and she leads the Statistical Reinforcement Learning Lab. Her research emphasizes statistical reinforcement learning, the construction of individualized treatment sequences, and Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs) delivered in real time through mobile devices, with applications in mobile health and clinical trials. She introduced innovative trial designs, including the Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) and micro-randomized trials, which have transformed how researchers test and optimize dynamic treatment regimes in precision medicine. Her contributions have been recognized with numerous prestigious honors, including the MacArthur Fellowship in 2013 for her innovative statistical tools in personalized medicine, election to the National Academy of Medicine in 2014, and election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016. Murphy earned her B.S. from Louisiana State University in 1980 and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1989, and she previously held faculty positions at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Michigan before joining Harvard. Her interdisciplinary collaborations with clinicians, medical researchers, and computer scientists continue to advance the application of data-driven methods to improve health outcomes.

Early life

Susan Allbritton Murphy was born in 1958. Little public information is available about her early life or family background.

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Personal life

Susan Allbritton Murphy was born in 1958 and grew up in a small town in rural Louisiana as the oldest of five sisters. One of her sisters is Nancy Allbritton, a biophysicist and professor at the University of North Carolina. Her father was a veterinarian in the Baton Rouge area (as of 2013). She met her husband, Terry Murphy, a physician, when he attended a party at Louisiana State University. Murphy is a serious hockey player, participating in women's and co-ed teams several days a week since around 2007. She has also enjoyed sewing and cooking since her youth.
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