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2009 Summer Program in Applied Biostatistical and Epidemiological Methods
Message from the Dean
About the Program
Course Descriptions - Week 1
Course Descriptions - Week 2
Faculty Biographies
  Jack Barnette, Ph.D.
  Bob Brems, M.P.H.
  Harvey Checkoway, Ph.D.
  Richard C. Dicker, M.D., M.S.
  Gregory C. Gray, M.D., M.P.H., FIDSA
  David W. Hosmer Jr., Ph.D.
  David G. Kleinbaum, Ph.D.
  Tom Lang, M.A.
  Stanley Lemeshow, PhD
  James A. Mercy, Ph.D.
  J. Michael Oakes, Ph.D.
  William Rising, Ph.D.
  William M. Sappenfield, M.D., M.P.H.
  William R. Shadish, Ph.D.
  Lisa Simpson M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., FAAP
  Jeff Smith
  Kenny Steinman Ph.D., M.P.H
  Donna F. Stroup, Ph.D., M.Sc
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J. Michael Oakes, Ph.D.

J. Michael Oakes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, School of Public Health

Dr. Oakes is a McKnight Presidential Fellow and associate professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota. He is affiliated with the Minnesota Population Research Center and is an adjunct professor of sociology. His professional interests center on quantitative methodology, social epidemiology and research ethics. In 1997 he earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Massachusetts. Today he is an active researcher and frequent principal investigator on a wide variety of studies addressing a vast array of methodological, health, and ethical topics. Dr. Oakes has authored over 60 papers exploring problems at the intersection of social and medical sciences; his first text, entitled Methods in Social Epidemiology, was
released in 2006 and has enjoyed wide praise. At UMN, he teaches several graduate-level courses in statistical methods and a Ph.D. seminar in social epidemiology. Finally, Dr. Oakes is involved with the RWJF obesity prevention programs and consults with a number of not-for-profit community organizations aiming to reduce health disparities among populations.