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 John C.
Higginbotham, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Dean for
Research and Health Policy
The University of
Alabama School of Medicine, Tuscaloosa Campus
Associate Professor
and Interim Chair
Department of
Community & Rural Medicine
College of
Community Health Sciences
The University of
Alabama
Director
Institute for Rural
Health Research
The University of
Alabama
Dr. John C. Higginbotham is Associate Dean for Research and
Health Policy and Associate Professor and Interim Chair of the
Department of Community and Rural Medicine at the University of
Alabama School of Medicine, Tuscaloosa Campus (College of
Community Health Sciences.)
He is also Director of the University of Alabama Institute for
Rural Health Research. Prior to coming to UA, Dr. Higginbotham,
an Epidemiologist, was a faculty member with the Department of
Preventive Medicine at the University of Mississippi School of
Medicine and at the University of Texas Medical Branch in
Galveston. He continues to hold an adjunct faculty appointment
in the UTMB Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, as well as
adjunct appointments in University of Alabama's Capstone College
of Nursing and the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Center
for Health Promotion. For the past thirteen years, he has taught
epidemiology, statistics, evaluation, and research design to
both medical and non-medical graduate students.
Dr.
Higginbotham's most recent presentations and publications have
focused on racial and ethnic disparities in rates of cancer and
in other health issues that have particular impact in rural
areas. In addition to being the Principal Investigator of The
University of Alabama’s portion of Project EXPORT “Reducing
Health Disparities in Alabama’s Black Belt,” some of his
selected accomplishments include the following:
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Principal
investigator 'Prediction of Vaccination Among Older
African-Americans,' funded by CDC.
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Co-Investigator for “Deep South Network for Cancer Control,”
“Psychosocial Impact of Cancer in Rural/Urban Women,” and
“Cancer Disparity in the Deep South: A GIS Analysis” funded
by NCI.
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Investigator for "Investigating STD Services for HIV
Prevention in Rural Alabama” and "Psychosocial Barriers to
Prostate Cancer," both funded by the American Academy of
Family Physicians.
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Principal
Investigator for 'Investigating the Ethnic Disparity in
Prostate Cancer Morbidity and Mortality in the Rural Deep
South,' funded by DOD.
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Principal
investigator of 'Barriers to Diabetes Care,' funded by the
Mississippi Department of Health.
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Compiled
and published first epidemiological report of the Cancer
Registry in Mississippi.
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Guest
editor for Family & Community Health, including a
special issue devoted to rural health.
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Member of
several editorial review boards.
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