Thomas A. Glass, PhD
Former Lead, Pennsylvania Project
Former Co-Lead, Education and Training Program
Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Glass is a social epidemiologist with areas of specialization in measurement, theory, social factors in aging, stroke, disasters and obesity. His work has involved exploring the use of systems science to understand environmental drivers of childhood obesity.
Full bio here.
Representative Publications:
- 2014 Fallah-Fini S, Rahmandad H, Huang TT-K, Bures RM, Glass TA. Modeling U.S. adult obesity trends: A system dynamics model for estimating energy imbalance gap. American Journal of Public Health. Vol 104 (7) pp. 1230-39.
- 2014 Bai J, He B, Shou H, Zipunnikov V, Glass TA, Crainiceanu CM. Normalization and extraction of interpretable metrics from raw accelerometry data. Biostatistics Vol. 15 (1) pp. 102-16.
- 2013 Glass TA, Goodman SN, Hernán MA, Samet JM. Causal inference in public health. Annual Review of Public Health Vol. 34 pp. 61-75.
- 2014 Nau C, Schwartz BS, Bandeen-Roche K, Liu A, Pollak J, Hirsch A, Bailey-Davis L, Glass TA. Community socio economic deprivation and obesity trajectories in children using electronic health records. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2014 Oct 16. doi: 10.1002/oby.20903. [Epub ahead of print]
- 2014 Schwartz BS, Bailey-Davis L, Bandeen-Roche K, Pollak J, Hirsch AG, Nau C, Liu AY, Glass TA. Attention deficit disorder, stimulant use, and childhood body mass index trajectory. Pediatrics. 2014 Apr;133(4):668-76. doi: 10.1542/peds.2013-3427. Epub 2014 Mar 17.
Full list of publications here.