Statistics, Epidemiology, and Data Management (SED) Core

The SED Core serves as a center of excellence for the planning, design, and analysis of investigator-initiated grant-supported studies and behavioral interventions to reduce the risk of HIV infection on the individual, couple, group, institutional, and community levels. The authoritative consultative and educational roles of the SED Core are structured to foster, assure, and implement the highest standards of data quality and effective and efficient data management and analysis for ongoing and future studies.

The SED Core ensures the highest performance of randomized behavioral intervention trials and observational studies by providing HIV Center investigators – both senior scientists and those early in their careers – with a centralized resource for study design and planning; data management, analytic monitoring, and problem resolution; state-of-the-art statistical analysis; and publication preparation.  The Core proactively identifies previously unrecognized design and statistical needs arising in HIV Center studies and to generate innovative design and statistical solutions to these problems. This will include providing support to researchers in designing and conducting interventions and analytic studies that entail consideration of the effects of multiple levels of social organization.  And the Core serves as a forum for the systematic exchange of ideas on methodologic developments in study design and data analysis and on emerging issues in the HIV epidemic worldwide, specifically as they relate to studies of gender, sexuality, and mental health; and through these, to enhance the understanding of HIV Center researchers of statistical, epidemiologic, and data management principles.
 

Core Members

Bruce Levin, Ph.D.: Core Director
Alan Berkman, M.D.: Core Co-Director
Howard Andrews, Ph.D.: Core Co-Director

Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Ph.D.
Curtis Dolezal, Ph.D.
Susie Hoffman, Dr.P.H.
Cheng-Shiun Leu, Ph.D.
Denis Nash, Ph.D.
Myunghee C. Paik, Ph.D.

Performance and Safety Monitoring Board Members

Patrick Shrout, Ph.D. (New York University), Chair
Frank Carbone, M.P.H. (New York City)
Bette Crigger, Ph.D. (Veterans Health Administration, Washington DC)
Patricia Hawkins, Ph.D. (Whitman-Walker Clinic, Washington, DC)
Nina Regevik, M.D. (Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy, NJ)