Educational Background

•  B.Sc. (Statistics and Mathematics), Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 1986
•  M.Sc. (Statistics), University of Guelph, Canada, 1991
•  Ph.D. (Biostatistics), University of Toronto, Canada, 1994
•  Post Doctoral Fellow (Biostatistics), Johns Hopkins University, USA 1994/95

                             Current Grant Support

Title: Flexible Multi-level Models for Longitudinal Analysis of Childhood Obesity

Funding Agency [Grant #]: NICHD [1U01 HD061968]            

Funding Period: 07/01/09-06/30/14

Role: Principal Investigator

Title:  Statistical Methods for Environmental and Genetic Research [project 3]

Funding Agency [Grant #]:   NIEHS [2P01 ES011627]            

Funding Period: 07/01/07-06/30/12 [renewed from 1P01 ES011627]

Role: Principal Investigator of Project 3

 

Title: USC Center for Trans-Disciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer  

Funding Agency [Grant #]:   NCI [1U54 CA116848]               

Funding Period: 09/01/05-08/31/10

Role: Co-PI of Project 3: Effects of the Built environment on Obesogenic trajectories in children, and co-Director of Data Management and Analysis Core (DMAC)

 

For a complete list of research grants/projects that I am involved in, see my CV in (WORD, PDF).  

                            Recent Committee/Panel Memberships

• Member, NIH: Kidney, Nutrition, Obesity and Diabetes (KNOD) Study Section [July 2011 - June 2015]
• Member, Committee to review the health effects in Vietnam veterans of exposure to herbicides (Fifth Biennial Update) , Institute of Medicine, The National Academies, Washington, DC
• Member, Committee to review the health effects in Vietnam veterans of exposure to herbicides (Fourth Biennial Update) , Institute of Medicine, The National Academies, Washington, DC

• Member, NMMAPS and Other Revised Analysis Review Panel, Health Effects Institute, Boston, MA

• Member, Science Advisory Panel, Western Interprovincial Scientific Studies Association (WISSA), Calgary, Canada (2002-2005)

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