Methods and Data Integration

The Methods and Data Integration (MDI) Core promotes methods and use of novel data sources to facilitate two overarching priorities:

  1. Target and tailor diabetes-related interventions and public health policy to promote health equity and reduce inequalities.
  2. Monitor the impact of innovations in care delivery, public health and social policy on existing health inequalities.

Biostatistical Consulting Services

DREAMS-CDTR is pleased to offer its members biostatistical consulting services by Amy Chiang, PhD. Dr. Chiang is a Research Specialist at UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. She has worked in women's health, health services research and social policy as it relates to heath and heath equity. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a MA from New York University. She specializes in econometrics and a variety of statistical and quantitative research methods, including quasi-experimental approach, causal inference, Bayesian, text analysis, and sequence analysis. Her research interests center around social determinants of health, women's health, health equity, safety net programs, and social and economic policies aiming at identifying ways with evidence-based research and data analysis to better understand and meet the health needs for diverse and particularly vulnerable and marginalized populations.

MDI Core Faculty


Alka Kanaya, MD

Co-Lead

Andy J. Karter, PhD

Co-Lead

Kaiser Permanente Division of Research

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Romain Neugebauer, PhD

Co-Lead

Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Core Faculty, National Resources Core

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Mary Reed, DrPH

Co-Lead

Kaiser Permanente Division of Research

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Courtney Lyles, PhD

Core Faculty