Data Science and Research Methods

Data science and research methods are crucial for public health. Leveraging advanced analytics, machine learning, and statistical models help public health professionals make evidence-based decisions that improve health outcomes. Our SPH experts lead and contribute to projects involving HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, heart and lung disease, cancer, neuroimaging, among other clinical disciplines.

Faculty List
susan arnold
Susan Arnold, PhD, CIH
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management
Silvia Balbo
Silvia Balbo, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Substance Use
saonli basu
Saonli Basu, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics
timothy beebe
Timothy Beebe, PhD
James A. Hamilton Professor of Healthcare Management
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Mental Health and Cognition ◦ Substance Use
bjorn berg
Bjorn Berg, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management
Jesse Berman
Jesse Berman, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Zobeida Bonilla
Zobeida Bonilla, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families
Ann Brearley
Ann Brearley, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Data Science and Research Methods
Mary Butler
Mary Butler, PhD, MBA
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Thierry Chekouo
Thierry Chekouo, PhD
Associate Professor and Medtronic Faculty Fellow
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods
yoshika crider
Yoshika Crider, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Dori Cross
Dori Cross, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management
Erjia Cui
Erjia Cui, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods
Biyue Dai
Biyue Dai, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Infectious Diseases
Bryan Dowd
Bryan Dowd, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management
Horacio Duarte
Horacio Duarte, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Infectious Diseases
Anne Eaton
Anne Eaton, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods
Lynn Eberly
Lynn Eberly, PhD
Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Eva Enns
Eva Enns, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Darin Erickson
Darin Erickson, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Substance Use
Amy Fairchild portrait
Amy Fairchild, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Infectious Diseases ◦ Substance Use
Mark Fiecas
Mark Fiecas, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Mental Health and Cognition ◦ Substance Use
Joseph Gaugler
Joseph E. Gaugler, PhD
Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Robert L. Kane Endowed Chair in Long-Term Care and Aging
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Ezra Golberstein
Ezra Golberstein, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Weihau Guan
Weihua Guan, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics
Erika Helgeson
Erika Helgeson, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Jue Hou
Jue Hou, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management
Jared Huling
Jared Huling, PhD
Associate Professor & McKnight Presidential Fellow
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods
David Jacobs
David Jacobs, PhD
Mayo Professor of Public Health
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health
Patricia Jewett
Patricia Jewett, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Cancer ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Abigail Johnson
Abigail Johnson, PhD, RD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Food and Nutrition
Eric Jutkowitz
Eric Jutkowitz, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management
Joseph Koopmeiners
Joseph Koopmeiners, PhD
Mayo Professor and Division Head
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods
Karen Kuntz
Karen Kuntz, ScD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management
benjamin langworthy
Benjamin Langworthy, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Data Science and Research Methods
Laura Le
Laura Le, PhD
Senior Lecturer
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods
JP Leider
JP Leider, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management
Jennifer Linde
Jennifer Linde, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Eric Lock
Eric Lock, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics
Xianghua Luo
Xianghua Luo, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods
Andrew Mugglin
Andrew Mugglin, PhD
Research Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods
Thomas Murray
Thomas Murray, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Infectious Diseases ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Hannah Neprash
Hannah Neprash, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management
sayeh-nikpay
Sayeh Nikpay, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management
Wei Pan
Wei Pan, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics
Jim Pankow
Jim Pankow, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Helen Parsons
Helen Parsons, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management
Ashley Petersen
Ashley Petersen, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods
Tess Peterson
Tess Peterson, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Harrison Quick
Harrison Quick, PhD, MS
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Data Science and Research Methods
J. Sunil Rao
J. Sunil Rao, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods
Reilly Cavan
Cavan S. Reilly, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Todd Rockwood
Todd Rockwood, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods
Kyle Rudser
Kyle Rudser, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families
Sandra Safo
Sandra Safo, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health
Pamela Schreiner
Pamela Schreiner, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods
Kelly Seaerle
Kelly Searle, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Nancy Sherwood
Nancy Sherwood, PhD
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Mental Health and Cognition ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families
Tetyana Shippee
Tetyana Shippee, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Marta Shore
Marta Shore
Lecturer
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Data Science and Research Methods
lianne siegel
Lianne Siegel, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods
Irina Stepanov
Irina Stepanov, PhD
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Mayo Professor in Public Health
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families ◦ Substance Use
Weihong Tang
Weihong Tang, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods
Gillian Tarr
Gillian Tarr, PhD, CPH
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Steffen Ventz
Steffen Ventz, PhD
Associate Professor & Medtronic Faculty Fellow
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Infectious Diseases
David Vock
David Vock, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods
Caitlin Ward
Caitlin Ward, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Data Science and Research Methods
Katie White
Katie White, EdD, MBA
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management
Julian Wolfson
Julian Wolfson, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Infectious Diseases
Ivan Wu
Ivan Wu, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Cancer ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures
Rebecca Wurtz
Rebecca Wurtz, MD, MPH
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Infectious Diseases
Tianzhong Yang
Tianzhong Yang, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics
Xiao Zang
Xiao Zang, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Substance Use
Lin Zhang
Lin Zhang, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics