Michael P Jones

Distinguished Research Fellow — Health Policy Research Program

Professor — Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science

Professor — Department of Biostatistics

Senior Scientist — Veterans Administration Health Care System

michael-p-jones@uiowa.edu

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+1 319 384 1593

Education

PhD, Biomathematics, University of Washington, 1986
MA, Mathematics, University of California-Los Angeles, 1975

Michael Jones was the recipient of the College of Public Health's Faculty Teaching Award in 2003. His current collaborative research projects deal with study design and analysis for projects in the areas of health services research, dentistry, general medicine, environmental health and psychiatry.

Latest Research

Dental Public Health | Journal Article

Variation in General Dentists' Patterns of Sealant Use in Children with Elevated Caries Risk

Oral Health Policy | Journal Article

The Effects of Medical Well Baby Visits in Promoting Earlier First Dental Visits for Children

Oral Health Policy | Presentation

Longitudinal Trends in Medical Well-Baby Visits and First Dental Visits

Public Health and Prevention | Journal Article

Parental perceptions of avoidability of their child's emergency department visit

Medicaid and other Public Programs | Journal Article

Does the Relationship of the Proxy to the Target Person Affect the Concordance between Survey Reports and Medicare Claims Measures of Health Services Use?

Research Interests

Analysis of epidemiologic data
Analysis of multi-level models
Missing data in longitudinal studies
Regression diagnostics
Survival data analysis