CONTACT
Phone: (310) 794-0733
E-mail: afifi@ucla.edu

EDUCATION
B.S. Mathematics (1959) Cairo University, Egypt
M.S. Statistics (1962) University of Chicago, Illinois
Ph.D. Statistics (1965) University of California, Berkeley

Abdelmonem Afifi, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, and served as the Dean of the School from 1985 until June 2000. Since 1965, he has been pursuing an active career of teaching and research in the academic world. He has served as principal investigator or co-investigator on numerous projects in the statistical, public health and medical fields. He developed new methodologies in multivariate and multilevel data analysis, including new methods of handling missing observations in regression and discriminant analyses, meta analysis, variable selection in multivariate analysis, hierarchical linear models, and multiple confidence intervals in linear models and survival analysis. In terms of interdisciplinary research, his early work included developing computer-based prognostic indices for critically ill patients; that work was a forerunner of what was later to be called logistic regression. Other substantive areas of interdisciplinary research include psychology, clinical trials, health services research, injury prevention, gerontology, and risk factors for lung and heart diseases.

 He recently concluded the analysis of a multilevel project concerning the effectiveness of hospitalist teams in caring for hospital in-patients. Another study compared Medicaid patients with and without care management in Florida. Currently, he is the Associate Director of the Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center, and is the senior statistician on several other research projects, including a CDC funded 8-year school based STD prevention study. Dr. Afifi teaches well-attended courses in biostatistics for Public Health students and clinical research physicians, as well as doctoral-level courses in multivariate statistics and multilevel modeling. He is the author of a large number of publications including two widely used books (with multiple editions) on multivariate analysis. As Dean, Dr. Afifi was an active participant in educational-policy decisions in the health fields at the local, state, national and international levels. Fe was a board member of the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH), the accrediting agency for Schools and Programs of Public Health, and continues to participate actively in accreditation decisions. In addition, Dr. Afifi served as advisor to various Universities in the US as well as Germany, Indonesia and Egypt.