Qiuhu Shi, M.S., Ph.D., has research interests that include clinical trial design, planning and analysis, as well as statistical methodological research in building and testing prediction models in public health. He has co-authored more than 100 articles in public health or clinical trial studies, served as a statistician or co-investigator in many NIH grants, reviewed clinical papers for numerous journals, and taught graduate level biostatistics courses for more than 20 years.

Education

• Ph.D., Biostatistics, Columbia University

Research

Funded Research/Scholarly/Program Grants:

• 1R21AI152046-01 (PI: Lowy) - 03/09/2020-02/29/2022, National Institutes of Health; The Molecular Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremias During the Opioid Epidemic: A New York Region Perspective; Role: Biostatistician

• 2R01FD004090-05 (Cairo) - 09/27/2017-08/31/2021; Phase 2 Defibrotide PPX in High-Risk SCD Pts w/MAC&Haplo AlloSCT IND127812; Role: Biostatistician

Publications

• Munyaneza A, Kim HY, Shi Q, et. al. "Factors associated with viral load suppression in pregnant and postpartum women living with HIV in Rwanda: an open-observational cohort study." Frontiers in public health, 13(), (2025) 1544165. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1544165
• Sharma A, Hoover DR, Shi Q, et. al. "Poor Sleep Quality is Associated with Frailty Among Women with and without HIV." Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999), (), (2025) . doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000003668
• Munyaneza A, Bhutada K, Shi Q, et. al. "High retention among key populations initiated on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in Kigali City, Rwanda." Journal of the International AIDS Society, 27(11), (2024) e26392. doi: 10.1002/jia2.26392
• Braniecki S, Vichinsky E, Walters MC, et. al. "Neurocognitive outcome in children with sickle cell disease after myeloimmunoablative conditioning and haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a non-randomized clinical trial." Frontiers in neurology, 15(), (2024) 1263373. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2024.1263373
• Murenzi G, Kim HY, Mivumbi JP, et. al. "Incidence, Clearance, and Persistence of Penile High-Risk Human Papillomavirus Among Rwandan Men Who Have Sex With Men." The Journal of infectious diseases, 230(4), (2024) e964-e970. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiae190
• Munyaneza A, Patel VV, Gutierrez NR, et. al. "Awareness and willingness to use pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention among men who have sex with men in Rwanda: findings from a web-based survey." Frontiers in public health, 12(), (2024) 1325029. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1325029
• Munyaneza A, Patel VV, Gutierrez NR, et. al. "Awareness and Willingness to Use HIV Infection Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis among Rwandan Men Who Have Sex with Men: Findings from a Web-based Survey." medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, (), (2023) . pii: 2023.11.01.23297747. doi: 10.1101/2023.11.01.23297747

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Teaching Responsibilities

• Introduction to Biostatistics
• Intermediate Biostatistics I
• Intermediate Biostatistics II
• Mathematical Statistics I
• Mathematical Statistics II