Melanie Wall
Melanie Marie Wall (born October 21, 1971) is an American psychiatric biostatistician,
psychometrician, and mental health data scientist who works at
Columbia University as a professor in the departments of biostatistics and psychiatry, and as director of Mental Health Data Science, a joint project of the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, and
New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Her research has included topics such as grief and depression, eating disorders, marijuana use and abuse, and correlations between school performance and athletic activity, studied using
latent variable models,
spatial analysis, and
longitudinal data. She is co-editor of the book ''Surviving Vietnam: Psychological Consequences of the War for US Veterans'' (Oxford University Press, 2018).
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