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Institute for Public Health Research
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IPHR faculty and staff offer a wide range of methodological expertise to public health research projects |
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Robert H. Aseltine, Jr., PhD, is Director of the Institute for Public Health Research and Associate Professor in the Division of Behavioral Sciences and Community Health at the UCONN Health Center. Dr. Aseltine is also Director of the Connecticut Health Information Network, an innovative, distributed network designed to promote the integration and sharing of health information collected and maintained by Connecticut’s state agencies. Dr. Aseltine is a medical sociologist with expertise in quantitative research methods and statistics, particularly in designing large-scale population surveys and multi-site, community-based evaluations of preventive interventions. Dr. Aseltine recently directed a national evaluation of the efficacy of brief interventions for risky drinking in 14 academic emergency medical centers across the country. He has also directed multi-site evaluations of National Alcohol Screening Day involving 20 college and community sites across the US, and has conducted several multi-site studies of school-based prevention programs involving schools in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Georgia. Dr. Aseltine has substantial experience in analyzing data from multi-site, cluster-correlated study designs. |
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Dipak Dey, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistics and is a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Public Health Research at the of University of Connecticut. Dr. Dey's main research interest is development of statistical models for biostatics, bioinformatics and environmetrics problems. His research includes modeling survival, categorical, and spatio-temporal data. Application of his research includes geographic disease modeling for various types of cancer surveillance and cure, clustering and classification of genomes, as well as identification of biomarkers. |
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Ofer Harel, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Public Health Research at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Harel received his doctorate in statistics in 2003 from the Pennsylvania State University where he developed his methodological expertise in the areas of missing data techniques, diagnostic tests, longitudinal studies, Bayesian methods, sampling techniques, mixture models, and latent class analysis. Dr. Harel received post-doctoral training at the University of Washington, Department of Biostatistics, where he worked for the HSR&D Center of Excellence VA Puget Sound Healthcare System and the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center. He has been involved with a diverse set of health research projects related to Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, and alcohol and drug abuse prevention. |
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Jun Yan, PhD is Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Public Health Research at the University of Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in statistics from University of Wisconsin -- Madison and his M.A. in Economics from the University of Miami. Dr. Yan’s methodological research interests include dynamic survival models, longitudinal data analysis, Bayesian methods, spatial statistics, estimating functions, and statistical computing. He has published in leading statistical journals such as Biometrika and Journal of American Statistical Association, and has been involved in a number of collaborative biomedical and public health research projects. Dr. Yan is committed to making his statistical methods available via open source software and has authored and is actively maintaining several R packages in the public domain. |
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Ann Ferris, PhD, RD is Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Public Health and Population Sciences, at the UCONN Health Center and is Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Public Health Research. She is also Deputy Director of UCONN’s Public Health Signature Program holds appointments as Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Connecticut-Storrs and Community Medicine and Health Care in the School of Medicine. Dr. Ferris has considerable experience and expertise in community-based participatory research and community engagement in health care delivery and research. Dr. Ferris has served as PI on numerous community nutrition research projects, directed multi-disciplinary program and research groups in Hartford and other communities. Dr. Ferris is the founding Co-Director of the interdisciplinary Center for Public Health and Health Policy at the University of Connecticut, the Urban Partnership and Doctoral Program Director in Public Health, as well as the Community Engagement Program Director for the Clinical Translational Science Award Planning group. |
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Elizabeth Schilling, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCONN Health Center and is lead analyst at the Institute for Public Health Research. Dr. Schilling is a clinical psychologist with an MS in Biostatistics and has expertise in advanced statistical analysis. She has analyzed and managed data from a wide range of studies including multi-site interventions, longitudinal outcome studies, and large surveys. Dr. Schilling’s main interests are focused on the mental health of adolescents and young adults, as well as the statistical methodology used to evaluate preventive interventions. |
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Michelle Pierce, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Division of Public Health and Population Sciences, School of Medicine and a Research Analyst in the Institute for Public Health Research at the UCONN Health Center. She has designed and conducted several formative research studies in the public health arena examining participant perceptions of health outcomes, the results of which have been used to target health education and policy development. Dr. Pierce also oversees the University of Connecticut “Husky Nutrition” outreach program. |
For more information about IPHR, please contact:
Robert Aseltine, Ph.D.
Director
This page is currently being developed. Last update: November 29, 2007. |
