The University of Kentucky’s College of Public Health welcomes a new faculty member, Christopher McLouth, PhD, to the Department of Biostatistics effective March 1, 2022. In this new role, McLouth will continue to be a core member of the Biostatistics Consulting and Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration Lab (Biostat CIRCL) group.
Dr. McLouth has experience with a wide range of study designs and statistical analyses, including experimental designs, clinical trials, longitudinal data analysis, and models incorporating latent variables.
Some of his recent completed CI research includes “Brief Intervention for Drug-Using Rural Women at High-Risk For HIV/HCV”, a study to determine the effectiveness of a brief, jail-based intervention in reducing risk for blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections among high-risk rural women, and “The Kentucky Opioid Response Effort - State Opioid Response (KORE-SOR)”, which is an initiative to provide a comprehensive targeted response to Kentucky’s opioid crisis by expanding services and supports in high-risk geographic regions of the state.
Dr. McLouth joins the College of Public Health from the University of Kentucky’s College of Medicine where he was an assistant professor in the Department of Behavioral Science.
Dr. McLouth earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and his doctorate from the University of New Mexico in Quantitative Psychology. Prior, he spent time working as a biostatistician in the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science at Wake Forest School of Medicine.
His faculty directory profile can be found here.
The University of Kentucky College of Public Health is undergoing a review by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) for re-accreditation. Part of this process includes the invitation to provide third-party comments. Anyone, including students, alumni, employers, community partners, etc., is allowed to share relevant information about the college directly with CEPH. If you would like to provide input to CEPH to inform their review, send your comments to submissions@ceph.org by May 4th, 2025.
