Research Interest Area: Clinical and Health Services Epidemiology
Clinical and health services epidemiology aims to improve health outcomes by quantifying safety and effectiveness of clinical, preventive, and healthcare interventions.
Overview
Real-world evidence, Learning Health Systems, pragmatic trials, patient-centered outcomes research, and medical product safety and effectiveness are contemporary topics for which clinical and health services epidemiologists have much to offer.
Students with the following interests and are encouraged to explore this research interest areas area, regardless of degree program:
- pharmacoepidemiology
- comparative effectiveness research
- health services epidemiology, hospital epidemiology
- clinical investigation, clinical epidemiology
- a variety of health conditions and patient populations such as infectious diseases, chronic diseases, injuries, older adults, maternal and child health
Faculty
Faculty members primarily working in this area
| Ryan Carnahan | Pharmacoepidemiology, aging, psychiatry, dementia and delirium, long-term care, stakeholder engagement |
| Mary Charlton | Cancer surveillance and epidemiology, access to care, rural health disparities |
| Elizabeth Chrischilles | Pharmacoepidemiology, comparative effectiveness research, pragmatic trials, cancer outcomes research |
| Nichole Nidey | Maternal Child Health, substance use during the timing of pregnancy and postpartum, patient and community engaged research |
| Michael O’Rorke | Molecular epidemiology, biomarkers of treatment response and prognostication, clinical epidemiology, cancer epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology |
| James Torner | Clinical trial methods, neuroepidemiology, musculoskeletal disorders |
Collaborating faculty
| Catherine Bradley | Urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery, patient-reported outcomes, psychiatric correlates of urinary incontinence |
| Lauris Kaldjean | Bioethics, end of life decision-making, goals of care, philosophy and religious beliefs in clinical decision-making |
| Korey Kennelty | Transitions of care, chronic care management, team-based care |
| Enrique Leira | Acute stroke management, evidence-based strategies to improve stroke management in rural areas, novel strategies to enable rural patients to participate in stroke trials |
| Barcey Levy | Family medicine, preventive health care, colon cancer screening, practice-based research networks |
| Brian Lund | Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety, mental health, older adults |
| Nicholas Mohr | Emergency medicine, rural telehealth, predictors and outcomes of interhospital transfer time |
| Eli Perencevich | Infectious diseases, health services epidemiology, cost-effectiveness of infection control interventions |
| Philip Polgreen | Computational epidemiology, sensors and personal devices for monitoring disease activity and health behaviors |
| Mary Schroeder | Economics of health and healthcare in cancer and cardiovascular disease |
| Carolyn Turvey | Psychiatric epidemiology, access to care, patient portals, telemedicine |
| Priyanka Vakkalanka | Suicide and substance use disorders |
| Whitney Zahnd | Rural health, cancer disparities, access to care, social determinants of health, social epidemiology, geographic information systems/spatial statistics |
Emeritus faculty
| Jennifer Robinson | Clinical trials of atherosclerosis modifying agents, cardiovascular disease epidemiology, clinical practice guidelines |
| Robert Wallace | Clinical epidemiology, aging, multi-morbidity, disabling illness, clinical trials |
| Richard Hoffman | General internal medicine, cancer prevention and control, patient decision-making, comparative effectiveness |
Curriculum
Featured Courses
- EPID:5500 Introduction to Clinical Epidemiology
- EPID:6910 Pharmacoepidemiology
- EPID:6920 Applied Administrative Data Analysis
- EPID:5214 Meta-analysis of Epidemiologic Studies
- EPID:6900 Intervention and Clinical Trials
- EPID:6950 Clinical Research Ethics – for students pursuing the MS in Clinical Investigation
Students interested in clinical and health services epidemiology are preparing for a career in which they will:
- Evaluate need, use, performance and outcomes of health and healthcare products, procedures, interventions, services and programs
- Advance methods for quantifying health effects of products, interventions, services and programs
- Contribute to optimizing health of patients
- Inform clinical and healthcare practice and policy
- Collaborate and lead multidisciplinary teams to design and conduct observational and interventional research
- Be competent in a family of related research fields including: outcomes research, health services research, clinical epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, and clinical effectiveness research
Sample Course List for Research Area Electives in Clinical and Health Services
| course # | course name | s.h. | semester(s) offered* |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPID:5500 | Introduction to Clinical Epidemiology (highly recommended) | 3 s.h. | Fall |
| EPID: 6910 | Pharmacoepidemiology and Comparative Effectiveness Research (highly recommended) | 3 s.h. | Fall even years |
| EPID:6920 | Applied Administrative Data Analysis (highly recommended) | 2 s.h. | Fall, odd years |
| HMP:4000 | Introduction to US Healthcare System (highly recommended) | 3 s.h. | Spring, Summer (online, additional tuition assessed for CPH online courses) |
| EPID:5214 | Meta-analysis of Epidemiologic Studies | 3 s.h. | Spring odd years |
| EPID:5560 | Biomarkers in Epidemiology | 3 s.h. | Spring odd years |
| EPID:6071 | Social Epidemiology | 3 s.h. | Fall |
| EPID:6900 | Design of Intervention and Clinical Trials | 3 s.h. | Fall |
| BIOS:5130 | Applied Categorical Data Analysis | 3 s.h. | Fall (elective for Certificate in Biostatistics) |
| BIOS:6210 | Applied Survival Analysis | 3 s.h. | Spring (elective for Certificate in Biostatistics) |
| EPID:6420 | Survey Design and Analysis | 3 s.h. | Spring even years (elective for Certificate in Biostatistics) |
| EPID:6510 | Injury Epidemiology | 3 s.h. | Spring even years |
| EPID:6550 | Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases | 3 s.h. | Fall |
| BIOS:5310 | Research Data Management | 3 s.h. | Last taught, Fall 2022 |
| BIOS:6310 | Introductory Longitudinal Data Analysis | 3 s.h. | Fall (elective for Certificate in Biostatistics) |
| BIOS:6610 | Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials | 3 s.h. | Spring |
| CBH:6205 | Designing and Implementing Interventions | 3 s.h. | Fall |
| EPLS:5165 | Introduction to Program and Project Evaluation | 3 s.h. | Spring |
| GEOG:4150 | Health and Environment: GIS Applications | 3 s.h. | Fall |
| HMP:7550 | Cost Effectiveness and Decision Analysis | 3 s.h. | Fall even years |
| HMP:7940 | Primary Data and Mixed Methods | 3 s.h. | Spring |
| HMP:7960 | Analytical Issues in Health Services Research I | 3 s.h. | Fall even years |
| HMP:7965 | Analytical Issues in Health Services Research II | 3 s.h. | Spring odd years |
| PCOL:4130 | Drug Mechanisms and Actions | 3 s.h. | Spring |
| PCOL:5136 | Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics | 1 s.h. | Spring |
| *Semester(s) offered subject to change due to enrollment, instructor availability, etc. Students should always check the course schedule at MyUI.uiowa.edu for the most up to date version of the course schedule. |
Master’s in Clinical Investigation
Certificate in Translational and Clinical Investigation
Centers and Resources
Centers and Institutes
- Health Effectiveness Research Center
- Preventive Intervention Center
- Institute for Clinical and Translational Science
- Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Iowa Cancer Registry