Kristin Sainani

Kristin Sainani (née Cobb) is an associate professor at Stanford University and also a health and science writer. After receiving an MS in statistics and a PhD in epidemiology from Stanford University, she studied science writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has taught statistics and writing at Stanford for more than a decade and has received several Excellence in Teaching Awards from the graduate program in epidemiology. Dr. Sainani writes about science and health for a range of audiences. She authored the health column Body News for Allure magazine for a decade. She is also the statistical editor for the journal Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation; and she authors a statistics column, Statistically Speaking, for this journal.

Academic Appointments

• Associate Professor (Teaching), Health Research & Policy

Honors & Awards

• Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellow in the Biological Sciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1997-2002)
• Rennie Taylor/Alton Blakeslee Fellowship for Science Writing, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (2001-2002)
• Teaching Award, Div of Epidemiology (HRP) (2005, 2007, 2009)

Professional Education

• Certificate, UC-Santa Cruz, Science Writing (2002)
• PhD, Stanford, Epidemiology (2002)
• MS, Stanford, Statistics (1999)