E. Francis Cook
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E. Francis Cook
Professor of Epidemiology,
Department of Epidemiology
Dr. Cook is a Co-Director of
the Program in Clinical Effectiveness. This is an
intensive seven-week summer program sponsored by the
Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the Harvard
School of Public Health (HSPH) that has trained over
2700 physicians with the quantitative research skills
that are needed for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research.
He also is the Principal Instructor and Co-Instructor
for the two main epidemiology methods courses for that
program. He is the Deputy Chair of the Department of
Epidemiology at the HSPH and the head of the Clinical
Epidemiology Area of Excellence within that Department.
Dr. Cook is also the head of the Concentration in
Clinical Effectiveness within the Summer-only Masters of
Public Health (MPH) Degree Program at HSPH. He developed
two summer-only degree programs at HSPH: the summer-only
Masters of Science in Epidemiology Degree Program and
the summer-only Masters of Public Health Degree Program.
He oversees and often directly supervises the master’s
theses for students in the summer-only Master of Science
in Epidemiology Degree Program, and has the same role
for the MPH Practica for students in the summer-only
Masters of Public Health Degree Program. Dr. Cook is the
Director of the Methodology Core for the Center of
Excellence for Patient Safety Research and Practice
within the Division of General Medicine at the Brigham
and Women’s Hospital. His major research interests
include the development and evaluation of instruments to
measure health status and quality of care, data mining
and the development and validation of clinical
prediction rules, and the application of multivariable
methods to control confounding. He teaches courses on
all of these topics at the Harvard School of Public
Health, where he has won numerous teaching awards,
including the prestigious Alumni Award of Merit for his
years of teaching at HSPH. Dr. Cook is a member of the
American School of Public Health/Pfizer Public Health
Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Last fall, he was a
co-instructor for Health in Numbers: Quantitative
Methods for Clinical and Public health Research, one of
the first two Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
offered by Harvard University, which drew and
international audience of 55,000 students.
Education
S.D., 1983, Harvard School of
Public Health
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Last Update
1/1/2017 11:15:42 AM
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