# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sally-w-thurston
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:38:24.158Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sally-w-thurston"
name: "Sally W. Thurston"
slug: "sally-w-thurston"
description: "Sarah (Sally) Newcomb Whitney Thurston is an American biostatistician and environmental statistician whose research involves the application of Bayesian hierarchical modeling to problems in environmental health, including work on endocrine disruptors, the effects of mercury in fish on prenatal development, and the health effects of air pollution. She is a professor of biostatistics and a professor of environmental science in the Department of \nBiostatistics and Computational Biology at the University of Rochester Medical Center."
tagline: "American statistician"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.202628
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  51
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Thurston"
    title: "Sally Thurston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%AA%DA%BE%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%B9%D9%86"
    title: "سیلی تھرسٹن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102236249"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations