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Professor
Chair: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Phone: 215.762.7152
Email: cnewscha@drexel.edu |
Craig Newschaffer is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Drexel University School of Public Health. Dr. Newschaffer has recently joined the Drexel faculty, coming from the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. At Johns Hopkins, Dr. Newschaffer founded and directed the Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Epidemiology, one of five federally funded centers of excellence in autism epidemiology. Major initiatives included the development of methods for monitoring autism spectrum disorders prevalence and participation in the largest population-based epidemiologic study of autism risk factors to date – the National CADDRE Study of Autism and Child Development. Dr. Newschaffer also is engaged in other projects focusing on how particular genes might interact with environment exposures to increase autism risk. His recently began a collaboration with Peking University to explore approaches for conducting epidemiologic research on autism in China. Dr. Newschaffer is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology, and a member of the editorial board of the journal, Developmental Epidemiology.
Research Interests: Epidemiology of autism spectrum disorders; study of autism risk factors; interaction of particular genes with environment exposures to increase autism risk; breast cancer epidemiology.
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