Justice Counts

Megan Price, PhD, Director of Research, Human Rights Data Analysis Group, meganp@hrdag.org

Megan designs strategies and methods for statistical analysis of human rights data. Recently, she served as lead statistician and author on three reports commissioned by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-OHCHR) on documented deaths in Syria. She is also the lead statistician on a project analyzing documents from the Guatemalan National Police Archive. She has contributed analyses submitted as evidence in two Guatemalan court cases. Megan is a Research Fellow at the Carnegie Mellon University Center for Human Rights Science, and she is the Human Rights Editor for the Statistical Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS). She earned her doctorate in biostatistics and a Certificate in Human Rights from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and holds a master of science degree and bachelor of science degree in Statistics from Case Western Reserve University.

Robin Mejia, MPH, Science Writer and PhD Candidate in Biostatistics at UC Berkeley (advisor: Nick Jewell, jewell@berkeley.edu), mejia@nasw.org

In over a decade as a freelance journalist, Robin covered health and science stories for the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post Magazine, Wired, Science. Her stories on problems with the statistical foundation for several forensics techniques and quality control problems at labs predated two National Academy of Sciences reports on the same issues. Her work has won several national journalism awards and been anthologized in the Best Technology Writing series. She’s a contributor to the Science Writer’s Handbook (Da Capo, 2013), which is taught in many graduate programs. In 2010, Robin returned to school to deepen her understanding of research methods and data analysis, earning an MPH from UC Berkeley in 2012. She’s currently working on a PhD in biostatistics.