PROGRAMS

APITMID Research Core
Director, Dr. Jimmy Thomas Efird
Associate Director, Dr. Pollie Bith-Melander

Medical Statistics and Infectious Diseases Modeling Unit (RCMI) provides assistance to APITMID researchers in 1) study development and implementation (e.g., research design, protocol development, sample size and power calculations, questionnaire construction, randomization, organization of data safety and monitoring boards), 2) statistical analysis (e.g., basic inferential statistics, multivariate analysis, binary and Poisson regression models, time-to-event models, non-parametric methods, group sequential boundary points, permutation based micro-array analysis), and 3) infectious diseases modeling (e.g., disease transmission models, vaccine efficacy models, vector control models).
(Head, Dr. Jimmy Thomas Efird)

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Unit (COBRE) supports molecular genetic and bioinformatics research on microbial disease agents, with services from primer design, to phylogenetic analysis (e.g., migration, selection, and recombination) and protein structural prediction. Analyses also include quantitative genetics modeling (e.g., linkage analysis, segregation analysis, identity-by-descent, additive polygenic models, linkage disequilibrium, and haplotype phase prediction and inference).
(Head, Dr. Shannon Bennett)

Applications Programming and Systems Development Unit provides systems programming, database design/management and computerized graphics services to APITMID researchers including development of computerized data entry screens, programming of cross-validated fields, edit checks, SAS programming, software installation and customized systems development.
(Manager, Kavitha Alimineti)

Medical Anthropology and Outcomes Evaluation Unit provides advice to APITMID staff in the cultural and ethnographic aspects of research study design and health outcomes evaluation.
(Head, Dr. Heather Young Leslie)

Applied Evolutionary Ecology and Population Genetics Unit models the complex interactions between organismal phenotype, ecology and genetics results in the evolution of emerging infectious diseases, invasive species and tropical biodiversity.
(Head, Dr. Durrell Kapan )

Imaging and Multimedia Science Unit provides imaging and multimedia database for the future education and technology.
(Head, Chieko Kimata )