Craig Newschaffer is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Dr. Newschaffer came to Drexel after seven years on the faculty of the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he founded and directed the Hopkins Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Epidemiology. At Drexel, Dr. Newschaffer now leads an NIH Autism Center of Excellence project studying a large cohort of mothers of children with autism at the start of subsequent pregnancies. This project, known as the EARLI Study, is designed specifically to study pre-, peri- and neonatal autism risk factors and biomarkers. He is also a principal investigator on other major autism epidemiology initiatives, including a national network established to monitor secular trends in autism prevalence and a CDC-funded multisite study that will be the largest case-control study of autism fielded to date. Dr. Newschaffer is a co-investigator on the Baltimore site of the National Children's Study, a prospective epidemiologic study of a representative sample of 100,000 US pregnancies, serving on that study’s national Autism and Mental Health working teams. He is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology and a member of the editorial boards of the journals Autism Research and Developmental Epidemiology. He is a member of the Science Advisory Board for the national research and advocacy organization, Autism Speaks, and serves on advisory boards for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Bureau of Autism Services and the Delaware Birth Defects and Autism Registry. Dr. Newschaffer holds a masters degree in health policy from Harvard University and a doctoral degree in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University and maintains an appointment as an adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins.
Research Interests: Epidemiology of autism spectrum disorders; gene-environment interaction; epidemiology and risk communication.
Teaching:
PBHL 630: Intermediate Epidemiology
PBHL 831: Epidemiology PhD Seminar I
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