Dr. Eva Murphy

Education

• Ph.D., Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Clemson University, 2023 
• M.S., Mathematical Sciences, University of West Florida, 2018
• B.S., Mathematical Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University, 2006

Research

• Environmental science
• Public Health
• Spatio-Temporal statistics
• Latent variable models
• Causal inference

Publications

1. Murphy E., Cademartori C., Kline D.M., Hurley R., Yong J., McDonnell C. L., Hepler S.A., Adams M.C.B, “Impact of Hurricane Florence on buprenorphine transactions for opioid use disorder: A dual-perspective synthetic control study.” The Journal of Climate Change and Health, Volume 29, 2026, 100679,ISSN 2667-2782, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joclim.2026.100679. 
2. Murphy E., Kline D. M.,Hepler S. A. “The role of spatially varying loadings in dynamic spatial factor models for modeling the opioid syndemic.” Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology 26.1 (2026): 71-86. 
3. Murphy E., Kline D. M., McKnight E., Bonny B., Waller, L., Miller, W. C., Hepler S. A. “Integrating data at multiple spatial scales to estimate the local burden of the opioid syndemic.” Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol. 2025 Jun;53:100720. 
4. Murphy E., Huang W. K., Bessac, J., Wang, J., Kotamarthi, R. “Joint modeling of wind speed and wind direction through a conditional approach.” Environmetrics, Volume 36, Issue 3, 2025 (Winner of ASA Section on Statistics and the Environment Student Paper Competition). 
5. Murphy E., Kline D. M., Egan, K. L., Lancaster, K. E., Waller, L., Miller, W. C., Hepler S. A. “Exploring the Opioid Syndemic in North Carolina: A Novel Approach to Modeling and Identifying Factors.” Biostatistics, Volume 26, Issue 1, 2025. 
6. Kline, D. M., White, B. N., Lancaster, K. E., Egan, K. L, Murphy, E., Miller, W. C, Hepler, S. A. “Estimating prevalence of opioid misuse in North Carolina counties from 2016-2021: An integrated abundance model approach.” Epidemiology. 2025 May 1;36(3):310-318.