Specific Aims
1. Provide essential biostatistical, epidemiological, and research design collaborative/consultative services to ACTSI investigators.
-Providing a full spectrum of statistical services to ACTSI investigators, and particularly to ACTSI developmental grant recipients, ranging from proposal development and study design to analysis and publication,
-Coordinating with the ACTSI Biomedical Informatics Program (BIP) on the development of their databases, as those databases are implemented
2. Foster the development of new statistical and epidemiological methodology to meet the analytic challenges posed by the ACTSI research community.
-Developing a library of algorithms and software in response to requests by ACTSI investigators,
-Providing specialized expertise and methodological innovations necessary for addressing complex statistical and epidemiological issues encountered in ACTSI research.
3. Promote biostatistical and epidemiologic education and training opportunities for ACTSI investigators.
-Designing and implementing online materials and tutorials,
-Providing mentored training opportunities for ACTSI developmental grant recipients, junior investigators, new ACTSI investigators, post-doctoral fellows, biostatistics and epidemiology graduate students, and other visiting ACTSI investigators,
-Collaborating with the ACTSI Research Education, Training and Career Development (RETCD) program participating in an existing short course entitled Biostatistics for Clinical Investigators,
-Collaborating with ACTSI to develop and implement a new short course entitled Biostatistics for Laboratory Investigation.
4. Promote and support outreach programs in the greater Atlanta Community and throughout Georgia.
-Designing and implementing appropriate materials and tutorials to be used to support ACTSI outreach programs,
-Collaborating with the ACTSI Community Engagement and Research Program (CERP) to develop and implement programs that expose scholars and researchers to population and community-based research methods as a supplement to ongoing ACTSI research efforts in order to enhance application of science to the general community.
-Providing a full spectrum of statistical services to ACTSI investigators, and particularly to ACTSI developmental grant recipients, ranging from proposal development and study design to analysis and publication,
-Coordinating with the ACTSI Biomedical Informatics Program (BIP) on the development of their databases, as those databases are implemented
2. Foster the development of new statistical and epidemiological methodology to meet the analytic challenges posed by the ACTSI research community.
-Developing a library of algorithms and software in response to requests by ACTSI investigators,
-Providing specialized expertise and methodological innovations necessary for addressing complex statistical and epidemiological issues encountered in ACTSI research.
3. Promote biostatistical and epidemiologic education and training opportunities for ACTSI investigators.
-Designing and implementing online materials and tutorials,
-Providing mentored training opportunities for ACTSI developmental grant recipients, junior investigators, new ACTSI investigators, post-doctoral fellows, biostatistics and epidemiology graduate students, and other visiting ACTSI investigators,
-Collaborating with the ACTSI Research Education, Training and Career Development (RETCD) program participating in an existing short course entitled Biostatistics for Clinical Investigators,
-Collaborating with ACTSI to develop and implement a new short course entitled Biostatistics for Laboratory Investigation.
4. Promote and support outreach programs in the greater Atlanta Community and throughout Georgia.
-Designing and implementing appropriate materials and tutorials to be used to support ACTSI outreach programs,
-Collaborating with the ACTSI Community Engagement and Research Program (CERP) to develop and implement programs that expose scholars and researchers to population and community-based research methods as a supplement to ongoing ACTSI research efforts in order to enhance application of science to the general community.