Joe Gibson, PhD
JGibson-AT-HHCorp.org

Dr. Gibson designs and directs studies and program evaluations; designs and implements analytic systems and tools for use in Marion County Health Department (MCHD) and the community; collaborates in research with faculty at several universities; and directs the Epidemiology group in similar work. His experience includes leading research teams for creating new lines of research, running a multi-million dollar study, serving as scientific lead on a variety of projects, and creating an outcomes tracking and reporting system for disease management programs in 12 disease states for clients representing 9,400,000 lives. His areas of expertise include maternal and child health issues, access to healthcare among Medicaid and uninsured populations, schizophrenia, medical and pharmacy claims database analyses regarding both health care costs and utilization, and secondary data analysis. Much of Dr. Gibson’s focus has been on public health informatics and preparedness. He has also developed an increasingly broad, standardized analytic system of datasets and tools within MCHD, and introduced a user-friendly analysis tool that is gaining enthusiastic use among MCHD administrators. He has experience is programming and development of systems ranging from a real-time, mainframe processing system for huge volumes of pharmacy claims to simple web-based information systems.