Faculty and Staff
MCHERDC's faculty consist of researchers from a variety of disciplines, including statistics, computer science, social and behavioral sciences, developmental psychology, economics, education epidemiology, neonatology, obstetrics, and pediatrics.
Through funded grants and contracts, MCHERDC faculty have published research in the following areas:
- Relationship of medical conditions and sociodemographic risk factors to infant mortality, low birth weight, and educational outcome
- Effect of early intervention programs on children's developmental and educational outcomes
- Readiness to start school indicators
- Kindergarten performance of children of adolescent mothers
- Effect of high school course taking on college placement
- Database merging strategies
- Information management systems
- Statistical methodology, including methods for longitudinal data analysis
- Biostatistical applications
- Prospective pricing methodologies
Center faculty also provide multidisciplinary training, centered on perinatal epidemiology and program evaluation research projects, to Ph.D. and masters students, post-doctoral fellows, medical students and fellows, and visiting faculty. Center faculty also provide multidisciplinary training, centered on perinatal epidemiology and program evaluation research projects, to Ph.D. and masters students, post-doctoral fellows, medical students and fellows, and visiting faculty.
