Danielle Boyce

Education Director, BHDSC
Tufts CTSI

Danielle Boyce is the inaugural Education Director for the Biomedical Health Data Science Collaborative (BHDSC). As BHDSC Education Director, Danielle leads the growth of a multidisciplinary educational program, including developing trainings on reproducible research and FAIR data principles and trainings to enable researchers to access informatics resources offered by Tufts CTSI, and leads research training experiences to foster broad collaboration in the biomedical research community.

Danielle serves as a Biostatistician in the Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) Center, an Investigator in the Center for Quantitative Methods and Data Science in the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies (ICRHPS) at Tufts Medical Center, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Danielle has a master’s in public health with a concentration in epidemiology and a doctorate in public administration. She is a veteran biostatistician, data scientist, and informaticist with more than 25 years of professional experience including more than a decade at Johns Hopkins University. Danielle has held advisory roles for the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Critical Path Institute, the Patient-Centered Research Outcomes Institute (PCORI), the International League Against Epilepsy, and dozens of patient advocacy groups and communities. Danielle also developed a course on Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) and continues to serve as a mentor for the program. Her research interests include rare and neurodegenerative diseases.