Text
Study Design: Quasi and Natural Experiments

David Redden, Ph.D.

After 25 years, Dr. Redden retired from the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he served as Chair from 2014-2017, and 2019-2021. Dr. Redden maintains an adjunct faculty appointment with UAB and is currently Professor of Biostatistics at the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine at Auburn Alabama. He has 29 years of experience as a research biostatistician and university professor, 25 of those years at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has served as Principal Investigator of a K25 award that developed statistical methods to estimate and control for the effects of admixture within genetic association studies. As the Principal Investigator of the NIAMS Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Center (MCRC) Methodology Core, he has mentored junior investigators and oversaw the design, data collection and management, and analysis of the multiple MCRC projects over a 15-year period. Projects included outcome and effectiveness research studies, genetic association studies, imaging study, and microbiome studies. He has also served as Co-PI on multiple R01 grants and longitudinal studies investigating AIDS, Diabetes, Obesity, Tuberculosis, Asthma, Early Childhood Education, Nutrition, Gerontology, and Cardiovascular Research. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) and is Director of the Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Division of the CCTS. He has expertise in design and analysis of clustered trials, group randomized trials, non-inferiority designs, power calculations, generalized estimating equations, and regression methodology including hierarchical linear models, mixed linear models, repeated measures ANOVA.

Pre-readings

Natural Experiments: An Overview of Methods,Approaches, and Contributions to Public Health Intervention Research

Video Lecture

Lecture Slides

Study Design and Practical Applications of Natural Experiments