RADx-UP Coordination and Data Collection: An Infrastructure for COVID-19 Testing Disparities Research.

Dr. D’Agostino is a community-engaged epidemiologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine. She also is the Associate Editor of Childhood Obesity, Director of Community-Engaged Research Practice in the Division of Occupational Therapy, and co-Director of the Duke Center for Child Obesity Research. Dr. D’Agostino’s research draws from over 20 years of experience working directly in school and park settings to develop innovative, community-based strategies targeting health access for all. She holds expertise in physical activity, obesity, fitness, and mental well-being in community settings, multilevel modeling techniques, analysis of complex longitudinal datasets, and methods of epidemiology instruction. Dr. D’Agostino serves as PI on the Youth Empowered Self-Care (YES) and Going Places studies to promote youth well-being and physical activity in close collaboration with Parks and Recreation. She also serves as Co-PI on the You & Me: Test and Treat study, Co-PI on the You and Me Healthy Registry program, and Co-I on the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) program that coordinates 143 research projects and develops community-engaged research capacity nationally. She holds appointments in the Duke Department of Population Health Sciences, the Duke Global Health Institute, and is a faculty member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Dr. D’Agostino obtained her doctoral training in epidemiology at the City University of New York, Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.

1. Emerging Infections
2. Global Health
3. Epidemiology of infectious diseases
4. Clinical microbiology and diagnostics
5. Bioterrorism Preparedness
6. Surveillance for communicable diseases
7. Antimicrobial resistance

Dr. Marsolo is a faculty member in the Department of Population Health Sciences (DPHS) and a member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI).  His current research focuses on infrastructure to support the use of electronic health records (EHRs) and other real-world data sources in observational and comparative effectiveness research and public health surveillance, as well as standards and architectures for multi-center learning health systems.  He serves as faculty advisor to the DPHS DataShare Shared Facility and faculty lead for the Pragmatic Health Services Research (PHSR) functional group within the DCRI.  Dr. Marsolo received his PhD in Computer Science from The Ohio State University, with a dissertation on data mining, specifically the modeling and classification of biomedical data. 

Coordinating Centers, Pragmatic Clinical Research, Real World Evidence, Neurocognitive Data, Data Science Workforce Development 

Warren A. Kibbe, PhD, is chief for Translational Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Chief Data Officer for the Duke Cancer Institute. He joined the Duke University School of Medicine in August after serving as the acting deputy director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and director of the NCI’s Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology where he oversaw 60 federal employees and more than 600 contractors, and served as an acting Deputy Director for NCI. As an acting Deputy Director, Dr. Kibbe was involved in the myriad of activities that NCI oversees as a research organization, as a convening body for cancer research, and as a major funder of cancer research, funding nearly $4B US annually in cancer research throughout the United States. 

Pediatric and adult clinical pharmacology and clinical trials.