Anarina Murillo, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics on the Teaching Scholar Track at Brown University.
Professor Murillo received her PhD in Applied Mathematics and a Certificate in Statistics from Arizona State University. She completed an NIH T32 postdoctoral fellowship in the statistical genetics and obesity training programs in the Department of Biostatistics and NIH-funded Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
She served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the NYU School of Global Public Health. Prior to that she was an Assistant Professor (Research) with the Department of Pediatrics and a Senior Biostatistician with the Center for Statistical Sciences at Brown. She was involved with leading the design and analysis of clinical and translational research in collaboration with investigators affiliated with the Advance-CTR, Hasbro Children’s Hospital, and Women & Infants Hospital.
In 2020, she was selected for the NIH NHLBI PRIDE program as a Research in Implementation Science for Equity (RISE) fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. In 2022, she was selected for the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Improving Care Delivery for the Aging (CICADA) Scholars program.
More information on Professor Murillo's teaching and research can be found on her website below.
| Porto, Carl M., Hagan, Matthew J., Schroeder, Christian, Thakrar, Raj, Taman, Mazen, Murillo, Anarina, Sullivan, Patricia L. Zadnik, Tang, Oliver Y., Leary, Owen P., Oyelese, Adetokunbo, Camara, Joaquin Q., Niu, Tianyi, Telfeian, Albert, Gokaslan, Ziya, Fridley, Jared S. "National Trends in Time to Surgery for Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in the United States: An Analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank." Journal of Neurotrauma, 2026. |
| Porto, Carl M., Hagan, Matthew J., Schroeder, Christian, Thakrar, Raj, Taman, Mazen, Murillo, Anarina, Sullivan, Patricia L. Zadnik, Tang, Oliver Y., Leary, Owen P., Oyelese, Adetokunbo, Camara, Joaquin Q., Niu, Tianyi, Telfeian, Albert, Gokaslan, Ziya, Fridley, Jared S. "National Trends in Time to Surgery for Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in the United States: An Analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank." Journal of Neurotrauma, 2026. |
| Goodman MS, Lopez A, Murillo AL, Pierce KA. "A comparison of methods for coding race in linear and logistic regression models." Annals of Epidemiology, vol. 112, 2025, pp. 15-22. |
| Quon RJ, Feler J, Wang Z, Leary OP, Murillo A, Fridley JS. "Weather patterns forecast the severity of cervical spinal cord injuries." Scientific reports, vol. 15, no. 1, 2025, pp. 21234. |
| "Diet Quality and the Gut Microbiota in Women Living in Alabama." American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2022. |
| McKinney RL, Napolitano N, Levin JJ, Kielt MJ, Abman SH, Guaman MC, Rose RS, Courtney SE, Matlock D, Agarwal A, Leeman KT, Sanlorenzo LA, Sindelar R, Collaco JM, Baker CD, Hannan KE, Douglass M, Eldredge LC, Lai K, McGrath-Morrow SA, Tracy MC, Truog W, Lewis T, Murillo AL, Keszler M, BPD Collaborative. "Ventilatory Strategies in Infants with Established Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: A Multicenter Point Prevalence Study." The Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 242, 2022, pp. 248-252.e1. |
| "Comparison of Resident and Faculty Screening for Social Determinants of Health in an Academic Pediatric Primary Care Practice." Rhode Island Medical Journal, 2021. |
| "Diversity of the National Medical Student Body — Four Decades of Inequities." New England Journal of Medicine, 2021. |
| Shakiba, Nika, Edholm, Christina J., Emerenini, Blessing O., Murillo, Anarina L., Peace, Angela, Saucedo, Omar, Wang, Xueying, Allen, Linda J.S. "Effects of environmental variability on superspreading transmission events in stochastic epidemic models." Infectious Disease Modelling, 2021. |
| Bagheri M, Tiwari HK, Murillo AL, Al-Tobasei R, Arnett DK, Kind T, Barupal DK, Fan S, Fiehn O, O'connell J, Montasser M, Aslibekyan S, Irvin MR. "A lipidome-wide association study of the lipoprotein insulin resistance index." Lipids in Health and Disease, vol. 19, no. 1, 2020, pp. 153. |
| Almonte-Vega L, Colón-Vargas M, Luna-Jarrín L, Martinez J, Rodriguez-Rincón J, Murillo AL, Thakur M, Espinoza B, Patil R, Arriola L, Arunachalam V, Mubayi A. "Cost Analysis of Treatment Strategies for the Control of HSV-2 Infection in the U.S.: A Mathematical Modeling-Based Case Study." Mathematical biosciences, 2020, pp. 108347. |
| MacDonell-Yilmaz RE, Murillo A, Panicker C, Welch JG. "Evaluation of knowledge and comfort with opioid prescribing among pediatric hematology/oncology fellows." Pediatric Blood & Cancer, vol. 68, no. 3, 2020, pp. e28786. |
| Towers, S, Cole, S, Iboi, E, Montalvo, C, Navas-Zuloaga, MG, Pringle, JAM, Saha, D, Thakur, M, Velazquez-Molina, J, Murillo, A, Castillo-Chavez, C, Norcross, JC. "How long do people stick to a diet resolution? A digital epidemiological estimation of weight loss diet persistence." Public Health Nutrition, vol. 23, no. 18, 2020, pp. 3257-3268. |
| Musial, Sandra, Abioye, Ajibola, Murillo, Anarina L., Eskander, Jessica, Sykes, Olivia, Rodriguez, Lixis, Friedman, Jennifer F., Bancroft, Barbara, Golova, Natalia. "Introducing Juice and Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in Early Infancy: Parental Knowledge and Intended Behaviors." Clinical Pediatrics, 2020, pp. 000992282096108. |
| Ogbunugafor, C. Brandon, Miller-Dickson, Miles D., Meszaros, Victor A., Gomez, Lourdes M., Murillo, Anarina L., Scarpino, Samuel V. "Variation in microparasite free-living survival and indirect transmission can modulate the intensity of emerging outbreaks." Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020. |
| Ogbunugafor, C. Brandon, Miller-Dickson, Miles D., Meszaros, Victor A., Gomez, Lourdes M., Murillo, Anarina L., Scarpino, Samuel V. "Variation in SARS-CoV-2 free-living survival and environmental transmission can modulate the intensity of COVID-19 outbreaks." [], 2020. |
| Murillo AL, Kaiser KA, Smith DL Jr, Peterson CM, Affuso O, Tiwari HK, Allison DB. "A Systematic Scoping Review of Surgically Manipulated Adipose Tissue and the Regulation of Energetics and Body Fat in Animals." Obesity, vol. 27, no. 9, 2019, pp. 1404-1417. |
| Murillo AL, Affuso O, Peterson CM, Li P, Wiener HW, Tekwe CD, Allison DB. "Illustration of Measurement Error Models for Reducing Bias in Nutrition and Obesity Research Using 2-D Body Composition Data." Obesity, vol. 27, no. 3, 2019, pp. 489-495. |
| Murillo AL, Li JX, Castillo-Chavez C. "Modeling the dynamics of glucose, insulin, and free fatty acids with time delay: The impact of bariatric surgery on type 2 diabetes mellitus." Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE, vol. 16, no. 5, 2019, pp. 5765-5787. |
| Cedillo YE, Murillo AL, Fernández JR. "The association between allostatic load and anthropometric measurements among a multiethnic cohort of children." Pediatric obesity, vol. 14, no. 6, 2019, pp. e12501. |
| Murillo D, Murillo A, Lee S. "The Role of Vertical Transmission in the Control of Dengue Fever." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 16, no. 5, 2019. |
| Murillo, Anarina L., Tiwari, Hemant K., Affuso, Olivia. "Analysis of the High School Longitudinal Study to Evaluate Associations Among Mathematics Achievement, Mentorship and Student Participation in STEM Programs.", 2018, pp. 269-290. |
| Safan M, Murillo AL, Wadhera D, Castillo-Chavez C. "Modeling the Diet Dynamics of Children: the Roles of Socialization and the School Environment." Letters in Biomathematics, vol. 5, no. 1, 2018, pp. 275-306. |
| Edholm, Christina J., Emerenini, Blessing O., Murillo, Anarina L., Saucedo, Omar, Shakiba, Nika, Wang, Xueying, Allen, Linda J. S., Peace, Angela. "Searching for Superspreaders: Identifying Epidemic Patterns Associated with Superspreading Events in Stochastic Models.", 2018, pp. 1-29. |
| Murillo AL, Safan M, Castillo-Chavez C, Phillips ED, Wadhera D. "Modeling eating behaviors: The role of environment and positive food association learning via a Ratatouille effect." Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE, vol. 13, no. 4, 2016, pp. 841-855. |
| Bichara, Derdei, Holechek, Susan A., Velázquez-Castro, Jorge, Murillo, Anarina L., Castillo-Chavez, Carlos. "On the dynamics of dengue virus type 2 with residence times and vertical transmission." Letters in Biomathematics, vol. 3, no. 1, 2016, pp. 140-160. |
| Vera DM, Hora RA, Murillo A, Wong JF, Torre AJ, Wang D, Boulay D, Hancock K, Katz JM, Ramos M, Loayza L, Quispe J, Reaves EJ, Bausch DG, Chowell G, Montgomery JM. "Assessing the impact of public health interventions on the transmission of pandemic H1N1 influenza a virus aboard a Peruvian navy ship." Influenza and other respiratory viruses, vol. 8, no. 3, 2014, pp. 353-9. |
| Murillo, David, Holechek, Susan A., Murillo, Anarina L., Sanchez, Fabio, Castillo-Chavez, Carlos. "Vertical Transmission in a Two-Strain Model of Dengue Fever." Letters in Biomathematics, vol. 1, no. 2, 2014, pp. 249-271. |
My research interests are broadly in statistical applications in chronic diseases (obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, asthma), infectious diseases, health disparities, social determinants of health, and in education. My methodological interests are in the intersection of statistical inference, mathematical modeling, and simulation studies for the prediction of health outcomes and for guiding the design of interventions and policies.
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | PhD | Arizona State University |
| 2013 | MS | Arizona State University |
| 2010 | BS | Arizona State University |
2022-2023, CICADA Scholar, Center for Improving Care Delivery for the Aging (CICADA) Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania
2020-2021, NIH NHLBI PRIDE Fellow, Research in Implementation Science for Equity (RISE) Program, University of California, San Francisco
2016-2019, NIH T32 Postdoctoral Fellow, Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) and Statistical Genetics Training Programs (NIDDK/NHLBI), University of Alabama at Birmingham
2018, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network Career Development Grant, Arizona State University
2013-2016, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Graduate Fellowship, Arizona State University
2010-2012, NSF LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship, Arizona State University
American Statistical Association
Eastern North American Region International Biometric Society
Obesity Society
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science
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