Theodore Holford

Professor Holford’s research interests are in the development and application of statistical methods in public health and medicine which focuses on three areas: extending age-period-cohort models to the analysis of temporal trends in disease maps; developing models that can be used to develop strategies for controlling cancer; and the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to study the association between environmental exposures and disease risk. His work on a lung cancer models is a part of the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET), which consists of a group of investigators at various institutions who are engaged in developing mathematical models for various cancer sites. Another focus of his research involves the development of methods for studying the effects of environmental exposures and disease risk using GIS. These applications include the effects of environmental exposures on asthma symptoms, and the prediction of areas that have habitats that are compatible with vectors for specific microbial diseases.