Biostatistician Abisola Idu, MS, MPH, is interested in research that investigates the effectiveness and efficacy of treatment in pharmacoepidemiologic studies. She has a broad range of interest in research with a strong motivation to investigate the health challenges of malaria, obesity, cancer, heart disease, and maternal health.
Ms. Idu began her contributions to clinical and public health research through her academic training at the University of Texas Health Science Center, School of Public Health. She further got rigorous research experience by being a part of the leukemia, lymphoma, and cancer prevention research team at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in 2015. She has been a biostatistician at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute's Biostatistics Unit since 2018.
Ms. Idu looks forward to using her expertise in application of epidemiological principles and surveillance methodologies at KPWHRI. She has an in-depth knowledge of the ICH-GCP, FDA, IRB policies, regulations, and guidelines and plans to use her skills and background to implement epidemiologic study designs in clinical research studies.
Efficacy and safety of therapies; association between genetic variability and survival outcomes
Role of nutritional, psychological and lifestyle factors; obesity prevention and control
Role of aging, nutritional and lifestyle factors; Intervention strategies for prevention and disease control
Association between social, behavioral and clinical factors and maternal and infant outcomes
Malaria prevention and control; development of vaccines; availability and accessibility to malaria treatment
Avalos LA, Neugebauer RS, Nance N, Badon SE, Cheetham TC, Easterling TR, Reynolds K, Idu A, Bider-Canfield Z, Holt VL, Dublin S Maternal and neonatal outcomes associated with treating hypertension in pregnancy at different thresholds 2023 May;43(5):381-390. doi: 10.1002/phar.2778. Epub 2023-02-13. PubMed
Coley RY, Smith JJ, Karliner L, Idu AE, Lee SJ, Fuller S, Lam R, Barnes DE, Dublin S External Validation of the eRADAR Risk Score for Detecting Undiagnosed Dementia in Two Real-World Healthcare Systems 2023 Feb;38(2):351-360. doi: 10.1007/s11606-022-07736-6. Epub 2022-07-29. PubMed
Glass JE, Dorsey CN, Beatty T, Bobb JF, Wong ES, Palazzo L, King D, Mogk J, Stefanik-Guizlo K, Idu A, Key D, Fortney JC, Thomas R, McWethy AG, Caldeiro RM, Bradley KA Study protocol for a factorial-randomized controlled trial evaluating the implementation, costs, effectiveness, and sustainment of digital therapeutics for substance use disorder in primary care (DIGITS Trial) 2023 Feb;18(1):3. doi: 10.1186/s13012-022-01258-9. Epub 2023-02-01. PubMed
Wartko PD, Qiu H, Idu AE, Yu O, McCormack J, Matthews AG, Bobb JF, Saxon AJ, Campbell CI, Liu D, Braciszewski JM, Murphy SM, Burganowski RP, Murphy MT, Horigian VE, Hamilton LK, Lee AK, Boudreau DM, Bradley KA Baseline representativeness of patients in clinics enrolled in the PRimary care Opioid Use Disorders treatment (PROUD) trial: comparison of trial and non-trial clinics in the same health systems 2022 Dec 29;22(1):1593. doi: 10.1186/s12913-022-08915-1. Epub 2022-12-29. PubMed
Braciszewski JM, Idu AE, Yarborough BJH, Stumbo SP, Bobb JF, Bradley KA, Rossom RC, Murphy MT, Binswanger IA, Campbell CI, Glass JE, Matson TE, Lapham GT, Loree AM, Barbosa-Leiker C, Hatch MA, Tsui JI, Arnsten JH, Stotts A, Horigian V, Hutcheson R, Bart G, Saxon AJ, Thakral M, Ling Grant D, Pflugeisen CM, Usaga I, Madziwa LT, Silva A, Boudreau DM Sex Differences in Comorbid Mental and Substance Use Disorders Among Primary Care Patients With Opioid Use Disorder 2022 Dec;73(12):1330-1337. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.202100665. Epub 2022-06-16. PubMed
Cheetham TC, Shortreed SM, Avalos LA, Reynolds K, Holt VL, Easterling TR, Portugal C, Zhou H, Neugebauer RS, Bider Z, Idu A, Dublin S Identifying hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, a comparison of two epidemiologic definitions 2022 Nov 23;9:1006104. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.1006104. Epub 2022-11-23. PubMed
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