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Jeffrey Roth, Ph.D.
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Director of MCHERDC |
MCHERDC |
| Phone: (352) 334-1368 |
Biography:
Jeffrey Roth received a Ph.D. in Social Foundations of Education from the University of Florida in 1987 and is currently Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the College of Medicine, University of Florida. He is Program Director of the Maternal Child Health and Education Research and Data Center (MCHERDC), a multidisciplinary group of faculty and staff that conduct risk assessment, outcomes research, program evaluation, fiscal impact studies, and cost-benefit analyses for state, regional, and national organizations. He currently supervises statewide data collection and reporting systems for Children's Medical Services, Florida Departments of Health (Regional Perinatal Intensive Care Centers Program and Early Steps) and the Bureau of Community Environmental Health (Florida Birth Defects Registry). He is principal investigator of a multi-year evaluation of Florida's Medicaid Family Planning Waiver, funded by the Bureau of Medicaid Research and Quality, Florida Agency of Health Care Administration. He is co-principal investigator with Northwestern University economist David Figlio on a 5-year grant from the Urban Institute in support of a Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research.
Areas of Expertise:
- Educational disabilities of neonatal intensive care graduates.
- Association of maternal and infant risk factors with subsequent school performance.
- Assessment of early childhood intervention programs.
Recent Publications:
- Figlio, D., Hamersma, S., and Roth, J. (2009) Does prenatal WIC participation improve birth outcomes? New evidence from Florida. Journal of Public Economics, 93, 235-245.
- Rao, P.V., Li, Haihong, L., and Roth, J.(2008) Recursive Path Models when Both Predictor and Response Variables are Categorical. Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 2, 663-676.
- Gueorguieva, R., Morse, S. B., and Roth, J. (2008) Length of participation in WIC and risk of delivering a small for gestational age infant: Florida, 1996-2004. Maternal and Child Health Journal, online.
- Liu, X. and Roth, J. (2008). Development and validation of an infant morbidity index using latent variable models. Statistics in Medicine, 27, 971-989.
- Morse, S.B., Wu, S.S., Ma, C., Ariet, M., Resnick, M.B., and Roth, J. (2006). Racial and gender differences in the viability of extremely low birth weight infants: a population-based study. Pediatrics, 117, 106-112.
- Tang, Y., Ma, C., Cui, W., Chang, V., Ariet, M., Morse, S.B., Resnick, M.B. and Roth, J. (2006). The risk of birth defects in multiple births: a population-based study. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 10(1), 75-81.
