Leadership

Nathaniel Schenker, Ph.D.

Deputy Director

National Center for Health Statistics

Office of Public Health Scientific Services

Nathaniel Schenker was recently appointed Deputy Director of the National Center for Health Statistics, having previously served as Associate Director for Research and Methodology and before that, Senior Scientist for Research and Methodology. He is also Adjunct Professor of Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland and Past President of the American Statistical Association.

He is a member of the Office of Management and Budget’s Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology and the National Research Council’s Standing Committee on Reengineering Census Operations.

Before working at NCHS, he was a faculty member in the Department of Biostatistics at UCLA. His interests include statistical methods for handling missing data, census and survey methods, computational methods, statistical modeling, and the application of statistics to the health and social sciences. At NCHS, he has worked on many collaborative projects, including bridging the transition from single-race reporting to multiple-race reporting in federal data collections; small-area estimation of the prevalence of cancer risk factors and screening; multiple imputation for missing income data in the National Health Interview Survey and missing body scan data in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; analysis of survey data linked with administrative records; and the sample redesign for the National Health Interview Survey.

He is a recipient of NCHS’s Elijah White Outstanding Scientist Award and its Owen Thornberry Excellence in Leadership Award. A native of Washington, DC, Schenker received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Chicago. He is married and has a son, who is in college.