Dr. Lauren Cain is a Senior Principal Statistician at Takeda. She received her PhD in Epidemiology and MHS in Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed postdoctoral work in the Program on Causal Inference in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research interests include the development and application of methods for causal inference from complex longitudinal data, pharmacoepidemiology, RWD/RWE, and patient-focused drug development.