Welcome to the Karl E. Peace Center for Biostatistics and Research.
As part of the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health (JPHCOPH), Georgia Southern University, the center provides biostatistical and research consulting services within the University and in collaboration with external researchers.
The center functions as a full spectrum research resource to Georgia Southern University and the external community engaged in health-related research. Overall, the center provides both biostatistical and epidemiologic expertise, including study design, data management, and statistical analysis of public health data, and provides training and education relevant to public health and other clinical and translational research. Our focus includes intervention trials and pharmaceutical drug, device, or biologics research and development as well as observational studies related to health behaviors or outcomes.
Students
We support the Master of Public Health and Doctor of Public Health degrees with an emphasis in Biostatistics or Epidemiology. The center engages students to prepare them in practical and computational aspects of design and analysis of research conducted in public health and clinical environments and in the research and development of pharmaceutical products useful in the prevention and treatment of disease. Clinical trial development and support is a major focus.
Graduates of the programs can have exciting and rewarding employment opportunities in the pharmaceutical industry, government, and public health agencies (FDA, CDC, state, and local), academia, and research organizations.
Services
Support and services provided address all phases of the research process, including research planning (experimental or research design, research aim, sample size determination, data collection form design, protocol development, research protocols, etc.), statistical simulation and computing, data management, statistical analysis, interpretation of the results, and report/manuscript development. The center also provides specialized courses, such as biostatistical aspects of the research, development, and regulation of pharmaceuticals and design and conduct of observational and interventional studies. Additionally, we provide consultation with subject-matter experts in the areas of maternal child health, mental health, program evaluation, research design, study conduct, and more.
Study Design and Protocol Development
- Research hypothesis development.
- Literature review to select appropriate statistical methods.
- Creating randomized assignment.
- Writing statistical plan for IRB protocols.
Data Management
- Data cleaning
- Data set up and retrieval.
- Oversee and/or perform data entry
- Statistical software support especially in R and SAS.
- High Performance Computing Cluster services.
Statistical Analysis
- Sample size calculation and power analysis
- Statistical model fitting.
- Conduct simulation techniques
- Data interpretation and visualization.
Collaborative
- Collaborative research projects including study methodology, study design, data collection plan and analysis with faculty/students/researchers.
- Grant writing proposal preparation with development of statistical analysis plan.
- Training and education for graduate students in data analysis skills.
Publishing and Communication
- Generating statistical reports
- Manuscript editing and publication services.
- Responding to the reviewers’ comments for publication.
Contact Information
For consultation and service pricing, please contact Dr. Kelly Sullivan.
Karl E. Peace Center for Biostatistics
Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health
Dr. Kelly Sullivan
Georgia Southern University
Hendricks Hall, Office 2040
PO Box: 8015
Statesboro, GA 30460
Phone: 912-478-7902
Fax: 912-478-5811
Email: ksullivan@georgiasouthern.edu
