Holly B. Shulman is an American statistician in the Division of Reproductive Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a developer of the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System for the CDC,[1] and the former president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics.[2] As well as her work on the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, her publications include highly cited work on abortion-related deaths.
Shulman is originally from Atlanta, Georgia, where she was an honors student in mathematics. Her interest in statistics began in a high school mathematics summer program, part of the Georgia Governor's Honors Program. She majored in mathematics at Georgia Tech, and went on to do a master's degree in statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.[1]
Shulman has worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for over 35 years.[1] She was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics for 1999,[2] and chaired the American Statistical Association's Committee on Women in Statistics in 2000.[1]
