Vice Chair of Faculty Professional Development
Professor of Biostatistics
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Biography
Qi Long, PhD, formerly an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health served as Dr. Safo's co-mentor from 2016-2017. The thrust of Dr. Long's research is to advance statistical methodology and data analytics in medicine and public health with keen interests in precision medicine and implementation science and in big data.
Research interests in statistical methodology: big data methods (with application to omics data and electronic health record data); predictive modeling; missing data; causal inference; Bayesian methods and modeling; functional data analysis; clinical trials; nonparametric and semiparametric methods.
Research interests in subject-matter applications: cancer; cardiovascular diseases; diabetes; mental health; stroke.