Christa L Lilly, BS, MS, PhD

Dr. Christa Lilly is a psychometrician and applied biostatistician. Her applied areas of interest include psychometrics, structural equation modeling, applied linear modeling, and maternal and child health.

Associate Professor

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Public Health

Department:

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Classification:

Faculty

• PhD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2008
• MS, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2005
• BS, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2003

MOST RECENT:

Gardner, M., Umer, A., Rudisill, T., Hendricks, B., Lefeber, C., John, C., & Lilly, C. (2023). Prenatal care and infant outcomes of teenage births: A Project WATCH Study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 23, 379. PMID: 37226124

Lilly, C. (2022). A game of Guess Who?: Testing measurement models between different groups. Journal of Pediatrics. 250, 113-114. PMID: 35973443

Lilly, C. (2020). The chicken or the egg: One statistical approach for determining the direction of influence. Invited article for Statistics, Explained, in Journal of Pediatrics. 227, 328-330. PMID: 32861696

Lilly, C., Ruhnke, A., Breyel, J., Umer, A., & Leonard, C. (2019). Drug-Free Moms and Babies: Qualitative and quantitative program evaluation results from a rural Appalachian state. Preventative Medicine Reports. 15, 100919. PMID: 31223561

For a full publication list, see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/christa.lilly.1/bibliography/public/

Chancellor’s Academic Scholar Award, West Virginia University Health Sciences Center (2022)

West Virginia University School of Public Health, Faculty Council Teaching and Mentoring Award (2018)

West Virginia University Office of Research and Graduate Education Outstanding Mentor Award, Honorable Mention (2016)

Christa Lilly is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at West Virginia University. Previously, Dr. Lilly was a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine, also at WVU, where she worked as the biostatistician of the Coronary Artery Risk Detection in Appalachian Communities (CARDIAC) project.

Dr. Lilly received her PhD in Psychology with emphasis in both Developmental and Quantitative Psychology from Vanderbilt University. She has experience working with parent-child interactions as they relate to child achievement and health outcomes, and has applied statistical interests in factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and psychometrics.

Dr. Lilly maintains a strong record of scholarship resulting in many conference presentations to date. She has co-authored published articles in Pediatrics, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, and Archives of Internal Medicine, in addition to first author publications in other pediatric, obesity, and psychology and education journals.

Dr. Lilly enjoys teaching introductory biostatistics and multivariate analysis.