Her research focuses on developing and applying statistical methods for the study of medicines, including comparative effectiveness and safety and drug utilization. Her methodological interests are in causal inference and hierarchical modeling. Dr. Franklin is leading the RCT DUPLICATE project, which aims to build an empirical basis for causal inference methods applied to real world data analyses of medications through the large-scale replication of randomized trials in real world data. She received her Bachelor’s degree in mathematics at the University of Georgia and her doctorate in biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.