Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Meet the Team

Meet our Experts

Faculty

Mekibib Altaye, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Design and analysis of correlated data. This includes developing inference procedures for intraclass correlation, and kappa statistic. Modeling...
Research Interests
Infant and child development; epigenetics; pregnancy; health disparities

Cole Brokamp, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Developing new methods and technologies to support environmental and population health research; tools for geocoding and geomarker assessment; high...

Nancy M. Daraiseh, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Occupational health and safety; human factors; patient safety; health outcomes; stress

Lili Ding, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Bayesian statistics; statistical genetics; population PK/PD study design and modeling

Shelley R. Ehrlich, MD, ScD, MPH

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Environmental molecular and perinatal epidemiology; obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine; endocrine disrupting chemicals; epigenetics;...

Alonzo T. Folger, PhD, MS

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Research evaluation of prevention programs; interpersonal trauma and psychosocial adversity; child development and behavioral health; social...

Emrah Gecili, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Development and validation of biostatistical models incorporating biomarker data aimed at outcomes prediction; Bayesian and traditional approaches...

Md Monir Hossain, MSc, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Spatial-temporal disease cluster modeling; hidden Markov mixture models; inter- and intra-rater reliability; survival function for informative...

Bin Huang, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Statistics Causal Inference; Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER); causal mediational analyses; statistics modeling of electronic medical...
Research Interests
Clinical Trials; measurement; scale development; measurement

Todd M. Jenkins, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Obesity; surgical outcomes; geographic information systems

Eileen C. King, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Clinical trials; data coordinating centers; data management; cardiac; pediatric obesity; gastrointestinal; health learning networks
Research Interests
Deafness; hearing loss; language development; developmental disabilities Visit the More Than Hearing Loss web page.

Nichole L. Nidey, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Application and development of analytical methods for microbial metagenomic next-generation sequence data; dietary assessment and analysis...

Patrick H. Ryan, PhD, MS

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Environmental epidemiology; air pollution; personal monitors; greenspace; neurodevelopment; respiratory health
Research Interests
Functional data analysis; longitudinal data analysis; medical monitoring; prediction

Jessica G. Woo, MHSA, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Early life influences on the development of pediatric obesity; severe obesity in childhood; breastfeeding and complementary food; life-course...

Bin Zhang, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Nanhua Zhang, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Missing data; comparative effectiveness; clinical trial design; meta-analysis; scale development; joint modeling; environmental health;...