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I am dedicated to advancing the development and use of causal systems theory in epidemiologic practice. My special area of expertise is infection transmission system analysis where my research ativities include HIV transmission control, environmentally mediated human to human transmission analysis, the development of a framework for using models in information systems that inform public health decisions, and the separate logics of inference processes for public health action and for theory selection.
All areas of epidemiology will be well served by modeling causal systems using meaningful theory. Chronic disease epidemiology lacks solid traditions in this area and views the causal systems they deal with as too complex with too many unknowns for a causal systems approach to work. This is a misconception that needs to be corrected.
More detailed statements of my research areas are being prepared for both the CV and Research sub-pages.
After completing a combined undergraduate and medical school degree at the University of Michigan my career began with a pediatrics residency at UCLA Harbor General Hospital and then a two year stint with CDC assigned to the state of Washington where I was briefly that acting state epidemiologist. I then worked on