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In collaboration with the Einhorn Initiative, this talk is part of the Research-Practice Partnership Series, which focuses on research-practice partnerships, a growing field that is foundational to the work of the BCTR. The goals of the series are to provide insights and best practices around building, sustaining, and evaluating research-practice partnerships.

Melody Goodman, associate dean for research and associate professor of biostatistics in the School of Global Public Health at New York University, is the featured presenter on Dec. 9, 2021. A biostatistician and research methodologist with a large statistical toolbox, Dr. Goodman’s research interest is on identifying origins of health disparities and developing, as necessary, evidence-based primary prevention strategies to reduce these health disparities.

Melody received her B.S. summa cum laude in applied mathematics-statistics and economics (double major) from Stony Brook University.  She received her M.S. in biostatistics from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and her Ph.D. from the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University with minors in theoretical statistics and the social determinants of health disparities. The National Institutes of Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Verizon Foundation, Long Island Community Foundation, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and Susan G. Komen for the Cure have funded her work.  She has over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and two books (2018 Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group); 1) Public Health Research Methods for Partnerships and Practice and 2) Biostatistics for Clinical and Public Health Research.