Using Statistics to Advance Social Justice & Human Rights @StatMegan @hrdag (Episode 47)

In this week's #DataTalk, we talked with Dr. Megan Price, Executive Director of Human Rights Data Analysis Group, about ways to use data to promote social justice and human rights around the world.
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Dr. Megan Price is a member of the Technical Advisory Board for the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, on the Board of Directors for Tor, and a Research Fellow at the Carnegie Mellon University Center for Human Rights Science. She is the Human Rights Editor for the Statistical Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) and on the editorial board of Significance Magazine.
Megan earned her doctorate in biostatistics and a Certificate in Human Rights from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She also holds a master of science degree and bachelor of science degree in Statistics from Case Western Reserve University.

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It was awesome learning about ways Dr. Price is using data to improve our world. You can learn more about her data philanthropy at hrdag.org/

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As the Executive Director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, Dr. Megan Price designs strategies and methods for statistical analysis of human rights data for projects in a variety of locations including Guatemala, Colombia, and Syria. Her work in Guatemala includes serving as the lead statistician on a project in which she analyzes documents from the National Police Archive; she has also contributed analyses submitted as evidence in two court cases in Guatemala. Her work in Syria includes serving as the lead statistician and author on three reports, commissioned by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR), on documented deaths in that country.