Jack Barnette, Ph.D.

Jack Barnette, Ph.D.

Professor of Biostatistics and Informatics and Associate Dean for Education and Student Affairs at the Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center at Denver

Dr. Barnette holds a Ph.D. in Educational Research and Development from The Ohio State University (1972). Before assuming his position at Colorado, he served in similar positions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Iowa.  He has served as an American Public Health Association (APHA) Statistics Council Member and Section representative to the APHA Action Board. He chaired the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) biostatistics competency workgroup, is past co-chair of the ASPH Biostatistics/Epidemiology Council. He has more than 35 years experience in teaching, advising students, and applying research, evaluation, and statistical methods to a wide variety of educational and public health projects.  His research has focused on aspects of experimental design, including planned and post hoc follow-up methods and application of effect size indices and measures of association and psychometric properties of survey data. He has served as an investigator on several projects funded by NSF, CDC, HRSA, SAMHSA, NHBLI, and NIOSH.  He has provided statistical methods workshops for the American Evaluation Association and has served as a faculty member for the 2005-2008 CDC Summer Evaluation Institutes. He has been recognized for excellence in teaching through receiving the University of Alabama Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award and has been selected as a member of the ASPH/Pfizer Public Health Academy of Distinguished Teachers.