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CHER Technical Assistance Group
The Technical Assistance Group (TAG) is a service center within the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER). The TAG faculty and staff have a broad range of expertise to assist with all aspects of project development associated with research including qualitative and/or quantitative support for research design, methodological details, and statistical analysis.
Technical Assistance Group—Our team
Monica Lininger, PhD, LAT, ATC
TAG Service Center Director, Research Infrastructure Core Co-Lead
Associate Professor, Physical Therapy & Athletic Training
Psychometrics, questionnaire item development, study design, quantitative statistical analyses
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Research Infrastructure Core Lead
Regents’ Professor, Anthropology
Ethnographic research design and methods, community based participatory design, social network analysis, qualitative sampling reliability and validity, health care systems research, cross-cultural applicability research design
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Catherine Propper
Research Infrastructure Core Co-Lead
Co-Principal Investigator, Research Project #2
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Christine Kirby, MA
Program Coordinator, Senior, SHERC
Qualitative Research (including codebook construction), RCTs (protocols), Conversation-Discourse Analysis, and Program Expertise in REDCap, Nivo, Atlas.ti, Qualtrics
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Steven Barger, PhD
Core Faculty
Professor, Psychology, Population Health
Research design, measurement, analysis of complex surveys, cardiovascular disease risk, social relationships, health-related quality of life
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Emery Eaves, PhD
Core faculty
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Qualitative analysis, interpretation, evaluation, chronic pain, substance use
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Viacheslav Fofanov, PhD
Core Faculty
Associate Director for Research and Graduate Programs, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS); Associate Professor, School of Informatics, SICCS
Statistical methods, database design, data quality, data entry, and coding, honest broker operations
David C. Folch, PhD
Core Faculty
Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Recreation
GIS, spatial analysis; demographic analysis; uncertainty; workflow automation, reproducibility; Python, R, ArcGIS, QGIS
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Lisa Jane Hardy, PhD
Core Faculty
Associate Professor, Anthropology Director, Social Science Community Engagement Lab
Research Design, Community Based and Community Engaged Participatory Research, Raid Response Research and Action, Qualitative Methods, Knowledge Dissemination, Minority Health, Health Equity
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Toby Hocking, PhD
Core Faculty
Assistant Professor, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems
Machine learning, computational statistics, optimization algorithms, big data analysis and visualization, interactive labeling and learning systems, free/open-source statistical software (R)
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Joseph Mihaljevic, PhD
Core Faculty
Assistant Professor, Ecological and Epidemiological Informatics, SICCS
Modeling infectious disease, virus epidemiology, statistical analysis
Michael Petillo, MS
Program Coordinator, Senior, Center for Health Equity Research
Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods, Data Visualization, Logic Models, Community-Based Participatory Methods, Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation, Indigenous Methods and Methodologies
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Mark Remiker, MPH
Research Coordinator, Senior, Center for Health Equity Research
Mixed Methods, Medical Record Abstraction, Database Development, Survey Development, Psychometrics, Basic Descriptive and Inferential Statistics, and Program Expertise in REDCAp, Qualtrics, SPSS
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Indrakshi Roy, PhD
Core Faculty
Biostatistician, Center for Health Equity Research
Health Economist and Health Services Researcher, Medicare data, causal analysis, multilevel regression, instrumental variable, power analysis, SAS, STATA and R
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Katharine Sanderson, MA
Program Coordinator, Senior, Center for Health Equity Research
Evaluation, Logic Models, Qualitative/Mixed Methods, and Program Expertise in Nvivo and Qualtrics
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Heidi Wayment, PhD
Core Faculty
Professor, Psychological Sciences
Survey and experimental research design, SPSS, EQS, R. Psychosocial predictors of health behavior and coping with stressful life events
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Robert Wickham, PhD
Core Faculty
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences
Experimental design/analysis, longitudinal modeling, dyadic analysis, measurement development/validation, mixture/classification analysis, SAS, Mplus, R