Duke Appiah

I am an epidemiologist with advanced training in epidemiologic methods focusing on statistical theory and analysis. My primary research goals are broad and directed at understanding the etiology and prevention of chronic diseases, specifically cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity with emphasis on women, reproductive health, and, minority as well as underserved populations. Other research interests include the intersection of infectious and chronic diseases on long-term health. I also have expertise in the design and analysis of observational studies and trials as well as comprehensive and specialized knowledge of statistical programming and analysis and analysis pertaining to systematic review and meta-analysis, mixed-effects or multilevel models, survival analysis (frailty models, competing risk events, repeated-events failure times), risk prediction, missing data imputation methods, mediation analysis, propensity score matching, generalized estimating equations, and generalized linear regression methodology..