Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Department: Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Graduate Group Affiliations
Contact information
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
3600 Civic Center Blvd.
Rm 5W 105C
Philadelphia, PA 19014
Philadelphia, PA 19104
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
3600 Civic Center Blvd.
Rm 5W 105C
Philadelphia, PA 19014
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Fax: 215-573-4865
Email:
ett@wharton.upenn.edu
ett@wharton.upenn.edu
Education:
BS (Applied Mathematics)
Yale University, 1999.
PhD (Biostatistics)
Harvard University, 2006.
Permanent linkBS (Applied Mathematics)
Yale University, 1999.
PhD (Biostatistics)
Harvard University, 2006.
Selected Publications
Yu M, Liu TH, Li KQ, Jewell N, Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Small D, Shi X, Wang B: Test-negative Designs with Various Reasons for Testing: Statistical Bias and Solution. Epidemiology 37(2): 228-236, Mar 2026 Notes: Epub 2025 Dec 29.Shi X, Li KQ, Yu M, Miao W, Kuchibhotla AK, Hu M, & Tchetgen Tchetgen E: Theory for Identification and Inference with Synthetic Controls: A Proximal Causal Inference Framework. Journal of the American Statistical Association Page: 1-23, Mar 2026 Notes: DOI.org/10.1080/01621459.2026.2639734 Epub 2026.
Park C, Stensrud MJ, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ: Proximal causal inference for conditional separable effects. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology Page: qkag051, Mar 2026 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssb/qkag051.
Boyer CB, Li KQ, Shi X, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ: Identification and Estimation of Vaccine Effectiveness in the Test-Negative Design Under Equi-confounding. Epidemiology 37(1): 77-87, Jan 2026.
Zhang J, Tchetgen Tchetgen E: On Identification of Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes with Proxies of Hidden Confounders. Observational Studies 12: 1-15, Jan 2026 Notes: DOI:10.1353/obs.2026.a985142.
Magosi LE, Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Novitsky V, Pretorius Holme M, Moore J, Bachanas P, Lebelonyane R, Fraser C, Moyo S, Hurwitz KE, Gaolathe T, Goyal R, Makhema J, Lockman S, Essex M, De Gruttola V, Lipsitch M: Unpacking sources of transmission in HIV prevention trials with deep-sequence pathogen data. Nature Communications In Press 2026 Notes: DOI.org/10.1038/s41467-026-70203-x. Epub ahead of print March 2026.
Lee Y, Dobriban E, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ: Finding Distributions that Differ, with False Discovery Rate Control. Biometrika In press 2026.
Li KQ, Linderman GC, Shi X, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ: Regression-based Proximal Causal Inference for Right-censored Time-to-event Data. Epidemiology 36(5): 694-704, Sep 2025.
Park C, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ: Single proxy synthetic control. Journal of Causal Inference 13(1), Jul 2025 Notes: 10.1515/jci-2023-0079.
Cui Y, Moyo S, Pretorius Holme M, Hurwitz KE, Choga W, Bennett K, Chakalisa U, San JE, Manyake K, Kgathi C, Diphoko A, Gaseitsiwe S, Gaolathe T, Essex M, Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Makhema JM, Lockman S: Predictors of HIV seroconversion in Botswana. AIDS 39(3): 290-297, Mar 2025.