Basic Biostatistics and Epidemiology for Non-Data Public Health Professionals

Dr. Ed Gracely received his Ph.D. from Temple University in 1986 and has been a faculty member at Drexel University (or institutions that later merged with Drexel, notably MCP) since then. He has been involved with the School of Public Health almost since its inception, playing a substantial role in the design and implementation of the MD-MPH curriculum and the original statistics and epidemiology blocks in Year-1. He is currently the course director and instructor for the SPH Introduction to Biostatistics course, member of the SPH Educational Coordinating Committee, Chair of the CBMP (Masters project) Oversight Committee, Chair of the Education Strategic Planning Task Group, and member of the Admissions Committee .

In addition to his SPH activities, Dr. Gracely also teaches statistics and research design to medical students in the traditional as well as the problem-based learning tracks, gives talks to residents and fellows, provides consultation to researchers in a wide range of basic science and clinical fields, serves on the editorial board of both Pain and Pain Medicine, and has a substantial number of publications reflecting collaborative work with primary researchers. His research interests include the logic of multiple comparisons, statistics education, and ethical philosophy. Dr. Gracely is a member of the American Statistical Association, a friend (and former member) of the ASA's Committee on Human Rights and Scientific Freedom, and the editor of the newsletter for the Section on Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences.
 

Mary Hovinga received her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Michigan. Her main areas of research interest include the surveillance and etiology of mental retardation, environmental epidemiology, and the human health effects of heavy metals, PCBs and DDT. Before joining the Drexel School of Public Health, she taught at the UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) School of Public Health within its Department of Epidemiology, in which she served as Interim Chair, and was twice awarded the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by UAB. Dr. Hovinga was also an Associate Scientist at the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center. Publications include articles in Public Health Reports, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Public Health Management and Practice.