Gabriela Oates, Ph.D. – Director
Dr. Oates, Associate Professor in the UAB Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, is a social epidemiologist with expertise in sociological theory and research methods focused on the social determinants of health (SDH), and experience in the application of SDH measures, tools, and data for health disparities, outcomes, and health services research.
Elizabeth Baker, Ph.D. – Co-Director
Dr. Baker, Associate Professor in the UAB Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, is a quantitative methodologist with a background in demography and expertise in U.S. Census data. She co-leads the SDH Core and manages the SDH Toolkit.
Lucia Juarez, Ph.D., Director of Data Analytics and Statistical Support
Dr. Juarez, Assistant Professor in the UAB Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Population Science, has more than 20 years’ experience managing large multisite cohort studies. She supports the linkage of multilevel SDH and clinical data and supervises a Core statistician in data management, quality control, data analyses, and other tasks.
Ariann Nassel, MA, Director of Geospatial Services
Ms. Nassel is the Director of Geospatial Data Visualization at the UAB Lister Hill Center for Health Policy. She is an expert in Census geography, developing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications for research projects, and performing geospatial analysis. She provides HIPAA-compliant geocoding and cartographic mapping. She manages UAB’s Esri ArcGIS site license and leads trainings related to the use of GIS.