Dana B. Hancock

As senior vice president of RTI’s Data and Analytics practice area, Dana Hancock, PhD, leads a multidisciplinary team that harnesses the power of data through modern collection, integration, and analyses to extract actionable insights across research and applied domains. The team designs and implements complex studies, big data types, multiple data sources, and a broad suite of analytical methods to address needs of clients including federal and state governments, foundations, and commercial organizations.

Dr. Hancock’s own 20+ year research career has focused on integrating multi-faceted data (omics, nutrition, and environmental exposures) and modeling their interactions to identify risk factors for human diseases. She has led multi-site studies to combine data from population-based cohorts and biospecimen repositories. She has authored 100+ peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and other correspondences.