Joseph Salvo

Dr. Joseph Salvo is an Institute Fellow within the Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative at the University of Virginia. He has extensive experience in “all things census,” making presentations on demographic subjects to a wide range of groups, and the management of major demographic projects involving the analysis of large data sets for local applications related to policy formulation, needs assessments, and program planning and implementation. Dr. Salvo’s work has been crucial to the formation of more widespread evidence-based policy, as his expertise in census data history, methods, operations, and products makes him uniquely able to analyze demographic data and explain this information to policymakers, who are in turn able to understand and employ this data during policy formation.

His previous positions include Senior Demographer, Deputy Director, Director, and most recently Chief Demographer at the New York City Department of City Planning; Adjunct Associate Professor at Hunter College; and Demographer at the U.S. Census Bureau. Dr. Salvo is currently Senior Advisor to the National Conference on Citizenship. He is co-chair of the NAS Working Group on Data Confidentiality and 2020 Census data products, and worked on behalf of the American Statistical Association (ASA)’s Task Force conducting an analysis of 2020 Census data quality. He has served as a member of the following associations: Committee on Population Statistics of the Population Association of America, Steering Committee for 2017 and 2019 ACS Data Users’ Conferences, Advisory Group for Future City Lab at the Museum of the City of New York, Census Bureau Scientific Advisory Committee, and the 2000 Census Advisory Committee. He has given testimony before the House Sub-Committee on Oversight and Reform on multiple occasions, served as an expert witness in litigation involving the census, has been a presenter at the “NAS Workshop on Challenges and New Approaches for Protecting Privacy in Federal Statistical Programs” and the symposium on “The Federal Statistical System – Recognizing its Contributions, Moving it Forward." He has served the American Statistical Association in multiple capacities, which includes Chair of the Social Statistics Section, Program Chair, and member of the Fellows Selection Committee.

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