The control and administration of SER is vested in an Executive Committee, which, as per SER bylaws, includes a President, Past-President, President-Elect, five Members at large and an Executive Director. All positions, except for the Executive Director, are elected individually by majority vote of the members voting.
Yvette Cozier
President
Dr. Cozier is an investigator on the Black Women’s Health Study (BWHS) and the BWHS Sarcoidosis Study at the Slone Epidemiology Center. Her research interests include social and genetic determinants of health in African-American women — specifically, the influence of psychosocial stressors (e.g., racism, neighborhood socioeconomic status), and genetics in the development of cancer, cardiometabolic, and immune-mediated diseases (sarcoidosis, lupus). Additional research interests include oral health, and the role that religiosity/spirituality and the faith community, particularly the black church, plays in health promotion/disease prevention in the Black community.
- Boston University School of Public Health, DSc Field of Study: Epidemiology
- Boston University School of Public Health, MPH Field of Study: Epidemiology
- Harvard University Extension School, BA Field of Study: Liberal Arts
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Wendy Nembhard
President Elect
Dr. Wendy Nembhard is a tenured professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Fay W Boozman College of Public Health, and a tenured professor in the UAMS College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics in Little Rock, Arkansas. She is also the director of the Arkansas Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention. She is the current chair of the Board of Directors for the National Birth Defects Prevention Network and serves on the Medical Advisory Board of the National Conquering Congenital Heart Defect Association. Read more
Bill Miller
Past President
Bill Miller is a professor in the Division of Epidemiology in the College of Public Health at The Ohio State University (OSU). At OSU, he served as the chair of the Division of Epidemiology and as the senior associate dean for research. Previously, he was on the UNC faculty for 19 years. He is an infectious diseases epidemiologist focusing on sexually transmitted infections, HIV, and substance use. His work has included observational and interventional studies in areas such as partner services, spatial epidemiology, sexual and social networks, surveillance, and access to HIV and substance use services. Read more
- AB, Princeton University, 1981
- MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,1985
- PhD, Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,1989
- MPH, Epidemiology, University of North Carolina 1997
Contact
Division of Epidemiology
College of Public Health
Cunz Hall
1841 Neil Ave
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43220
e-mail: miller.8332@osu.edu
Twitter: @BillMiller_Epi
Telephone: 614-292-2516
Laura Balzer
Member At Large (Education)
Dr. Laura B. Balzer is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her expertise is in causal inference, machine learning, and messy real-world data. Dr. Balzer’s work addresses challenges in the design and analysis of both randomized trials and observational studies, including novel approaches for semi-parametric inference, differential measurement, and complex dependence. Dr. Balzer’s work has largely been motivated by ongoing collaborations in Uganda and Kenya. She is the Primary Statistician for several studies aiming to eliminate HIV and improve community health in rural East Africa. Overall, Dr. Balzer’s work is informed by cross-disciplinary, real-world problems and aims to ensure methodological advances in academia translate into real-world impact.
Monique Brown
Member At Large (Awards)
Dr. Monique J. Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Arnold School of Public Health (ASPH) at the University of South Carolina. She is also a Faculty Affiliate in the SmartState Center for Healthcare Quality, the Rural and Minority Health Research Center and the Office for the Study on Aging. She is also Deputy Director of the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Leadership, Education, and Advancement in Undergraduate Pathways (LEAP) Program. She completed a postdoctoral research fellowship and was a Research Assistant Professor in the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences at the University of South Florida (USF). Read more
Bryan James
Member At Large (Awards)
Bryan D. James, PhD, is an epidemiologist with the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center and an associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Epidemiology Research. His research focuses on identifying risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, cognitive decline and disability at the population level. In particular, he is interested in social and lifestyle factors that can protect against the clinical manifestation of disease pathology in the aging brain. He is currently funded by the National Institute on Aging to examine why hospitalization can lead to cognitive problems in some older persons. James received his PhD in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2009 and Master of Bioethics degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001. He joined the RADC in 2009. James is an active member of the Alzheimer’s Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment (ISTAART), the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), and the Society for Epidemiological Research (SER), for which he co-chairs the Publications Committee and leads the SER Podcast initiative, “Epidemiology Counts”. He has published extensively in the areas of cognitive aging, gerontology, neuroepidemiology, and research ethics. Since 2011, Dr. James has contributed to the Alzheimer’s Association Facts & Figures annual report.
- BS, Utah State University, 2002
- SM, Harvard University, 2006
- PhD, University of North Carolina, 2009
Contact
RUSH University
600 S. Paulina St.
Chicago, Illinois 60612
Email: Bryan_James@rush.edu
Website: https://www.rushu.rush.edu/faculty/bryan-d-james-phd
Brenda Heaton
Member at Large (Membership)
Brenda Heaton, PhD, MPH is the Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Health Services Research at the University of Utah School of Dentistry. She is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences in the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Heaton’s primary research interests include the study of oral health equity through research that investigates the social, economic, and political drivers of dental care access, utilization, and quality. Her research utilizes observational epidemiology to investigate the relationship between oral health and overall health and well-being and applies complex systems science approaches to investigate the causal mechanisms responsible for the emergence of oral health disparities.
- PhD, Boston University School of Public Health, Epidemiology
- MPH, Boston University School of Public Health, Epidemiology
- BS, Brigham Young University, Health Sciences
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Peter Tennant
Member at Large (Communications)
Associate Professor of Health Data Science at Leeds Institute for Data Analytics and Fellow of the Turing Institute. My research focusses on the translation and use of causal inference methods to improve analysis of real-world data in health and social science.
- Data Science; Epidemiology; Biostatistics; Causal Inference; Causal Diagrams; Directed Acyclic Graphs; Maternal and Child Health; Pregnancy; Obesity; Diabetes
Contact
Email: P.W.G.Tennant@leeds.ac.uk
Address: Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, Level 11 Worsley Building, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9NL
X/BlueSky:
@PWGTennant
Faculty Page: tinyurl.com/pwgtennant
Alvin Thomas
SPC President
Alvin is a post-doctoral fellow at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Alvin leverages multi-omic, psychometric, and brain imaging data to understand the biology of cognitive resilience to Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. The long-term goal of this line of work is to improve the health of aging populations. Alvin’s other interests include causal inference and deep learning. Alvin earned a BS with honors in Chemistry and Engineering from Washington and Lee University, a MSPH in Global Disease Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served in the AmeriCorps program and remains committed to diminishing poverty through research and service.
- PhD, University of North Carolina, Epidemiology
- MSPH, Johns Hopkins University, Global Disease Epidemiology
- BS, Washington and Lee University, Chemistry-Engineering
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Email: alvint@wustl.edu