Melinda Higgins

Melinda Higgins

Emory University

Biography

Melinda Higgins, PhD, is a senior biostatistician and research professor in the Office of Nursing Research in the School of Nursing at Emory University. She has over 25+ years' experience performing and managing research in wide-ranging applications including healthcare bio-behavioral phenotype characterization and modeling, statistical support for clinical trials, aircraft sensor systems, remote sensing, multispectral/hyperspectral processing, signatures intelligence, knowledge decision support systems, geospatial information systems, sensors and image fusion, and target recognition. She is a co-investigator on ECOLECTIVOS.

Fun fact: Dr. Higgins took his horse to college and had an equestrian athletic scholarship.

Biography

Melinda Higgins, PhD, is a senior biostatistician and research professor in the Office of Nursing Research at the Emory University School of Nursing. He has more than 25 years of experience conducting and managing research in a wide range of applications, including characterization and modeling of biobehavioral phenotypes in healthcare, statistical support for clinical trials, aircraft sensor systems, remote sensing, processing multispectral/hyperspectral, signature intelligence, knowledge decision, support systems, geospatial information systems, sensors and image fusion. She is a co-investigator in ECOLECTIVOS.

Fun Fact: Dr. Higgins took her horse to college and earned an equestrian sports scholarship.

 

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Amy Lovvorn
Emory University
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
1520 Clifton Rd NE
Atlanta, GA 30322
alovvor@emory.edu
404-712-7350

Maria Renee Lopez
Center for Health Studies
University of the Valley of Guatemala
Emerging Infectious Diseases Program
18 Av. 11-95, zone 15, Vista Hermosa III
Direct: 2329-8482
mlopez@ces.uvg.edu.gt

This research is funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the US National Institutes of Health under grant number R01ES032009 and the EGHI Rapid Response Grant provided by the Emory Institute for Global Health at Emory University. from Emory. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the US National Institutes of Health or the Emory Institute for Global Health.

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