Career
Educated at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles (University of California, Los Angeles), he has held a professorship in epidemiology at University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health since 1989, and additionally a professorship in statistics at University of California, Los Angeles College of Letters and Science since 1999. Greenland has published over 300 scientific papers, two of which have been cited over 500 times. He is the co-author of one of the major textbooks on epidemiology currently in its 3rd edition
He was made a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1998.
He is also an Associate Editor of the Dictionary of Epidemiology sponsored by the International Epidemiological Association.