Stephen Gange is an American statistician, epidemiologist, and academic administrator of Johns Hopkins University. He is a professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has a joint appointment in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Gange has over 300 publications [>35K citations; Google Scholar h-index = 88] in Nature Medicine, Nature Cardiovascular Research, New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Clinical Infectious Diseases and numerous other journals. He has made substantial contributions to the fields of epidemiology and biostatistics, leaving an impact in a spectrum of basic, clinical/behavioral, population, and policy sciences. He has been a scientific leader with large national and international HIV studies, including the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS), Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), and the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD). Methodologically, he has made contributions to describing the patterns, predictors, effectiveness and optimal timing of therapies, modeling and evaluating the predictive value of longitudinal disease markers, and methods for evaluating and modeling competing risks.
Gange has been active in numerous advisory panels, including a member of the AIDS Clinical Studies and Epidemiology Study Section, co-chair of the Office of AIDS Research Planning Workshop for Natural History and Epidemiology, more than ten clinical trial safety monitoring boards, and as a statistician on the US DHHS Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents. He served on the editorial board of JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, AIDS Research and Therapy, and Treatment Strategies-AIDS.
Professional Biography
Gange earned a B.S. from Cornell University and Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison under Professor David DeMets. He joined the faculty in the Department of Epidemiology in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1994 and became a tenured full professor in 2007. Between 2003 and 2004, he played a pivotal role in establishing a new epidemiology department at Amgen Inc. He has been the primary advisor to more than 25 graduate students and the primary instructor for over 15 different onsite and online courses. He was elected as the Epidemiology representative to the school's Faculty Senate in 2006 and was subsequently elected president, serving as a member of the school's Advisory Board from 2007-10.
Beginning in 2009, he was asked to serve as the department's Deputy Chair and PhD program director by David Celentano until 2012 when he was appointed by Dean Michael Klag as the school's Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. As the chief academic officer of the #1 ranked School of Public Health, Gange held diverse responsibilities, overseeing a large institution with over 600 full-time faculty and 1900 students across 65 specialty areas. In addition to developing a strategic vision for the school's educational programs, he worked closely with the Dean, department chairs, and other academic leaders to implement new academic programs, with a focus on online learning and international initiatives, including leading/fostering three novel degree programs (Master of Applied Science, Master of Bioethics, and Master of Applied Public Health Biology). He led the school's successful reaccreditation by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) and oversaw several major academic offices, including Graduate Education, Center for Teaching and Learning, Student Affairs, International Education, Public Health Practice and Training, the schoolwide MPH & DrPH Programs, Research Compliance, Institutional Review Board, and Academic Integrity. He helped establish a collaborative MPH with IIHMR/Jaipur in India and was instrumental in establishing a DrPH in Healthcare Management and Leadership program in collaboration with Tsinghua University and was the instructor for the program's Principles of Epidemiology course from 2017-2021.