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About Program Staff J. Michael Oakes, Ph.D.
About Program Staff J. Michael Oakes, Ph.D.
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 J. Michael Oakes, Ph.D.
Senior Adviser
Dr. Oakes is a McKnight Presidential Fellow and Associate Professor in the Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota. He is also a fellow of the MN Population Research Center and an Adjunct Professor of Sociology. His professional interests center on quantitative methodology, social epidemiology and research ethics. He is an active researcher and frequent principal investigator on 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. He is widely known for his seminal work on how social stratification and social interaction complicates inferences drawn from many common research designs and statistical methods in public health research. He teaches several graduate-level courses in statistical methods and social epidemiology, including group-randomized trials and advanced epidemiologic methods. He serves the editorial board of Evaluation Review.
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