After continuing at the University of Texas at El Paso for a master's degree in statistics in 2001, she moved to Harvard University for graduate study in biostatistics, funded by a Howard Hughes Pre-doctoral Fellowship.[1][2] She earned a second master's degree in 2003 and completed her Ph.D. in 2006. Her dissertation, Structural equation and latent variable models: fitting, diagnostics, and applications to environmental epidemiology, was supervised by Louise M. Ryan.[5]
She joined the University of Michigan faculty in 2006 as an assistant research professor, became a regular-rank assistant professor in 2008, and was named John G. Searle assistant professor in 2012. She was promoted to associate professor in 2013 and to full professor in 2018.[5] In 2019, she moved to Drexel University as Dornsife Professor.[5][3]
^ ab"Scholar Story: Brisa Sánchez", New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 10 November 2016 – via Medium