Assistant Professor
Family and Community Medicine / School of Graduate Studies and Research

Director, Biostatistics
Meharry Medical College

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

vagboto@mmc.edu

Dr. Agboto is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Meharry Medical College and the Director of the Biostatistics at the Meharry Medical College in Nashville (Tennessee, USA). His current areas of research interests include the development of new Bayesian methodologies to design experiments and novel ways to design health disparity epidemiological studies. He is an adjunct assistant professor in the department of biostatistics at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Vincent Agboto is currently involved in many National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Center of Disease Control (CDC) funded collaborative health disparity research in youth violence, injury prevention, health disparities in HIV/AIDS, diabetes and cancer with faculty at Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

He is involved in development and community health projects in the United States and Togo (West Africa). He has published peer reviewed articles in Bayesian experimental designs and health disparities and has coauthored technical reports in statistics. He has made research presentations in statistics and public health during professional meetings or seminars at John Hopkins University (MD), Washington University (MO), Cambridge University (UK), Durban (South Africa), Gaborone (Botswana) and Lome (Togo) among others. He has programming skills in SAS, SPSS, Stata, Splus and R, Matlab and Mathematica. He also has extensive experience on Linux workstations as well as in the Windows 95/98/2000/XP/7 and Mac environments.

Specific research areas include:

1. Bayesian statistics
2. Optimal designs
3. Model robust designs
4. Sample Size and Power Analysis
5. New Paradigms for epidemiological study designs
6. Health disparity in cancer, HIV/AIDS and women health
7. Socio economic determinants of health

Teaching Activities

1. Biostatistics
2. Research Design
3. Data Management

1. Nowicki S, Izban M, Agboto V, Pawelczyk E, Pratap S, Olson G, Nowicki B. Preterm Labor: CD55 in Maternal Blood Leucocytes. American Journal of Reproductive Immunology, 61:360 – 367, 2009.
2. Agboto V, Nachtsheim C, Li W. Screening designs for model discrimination. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference,140:3, 766-780, 2010.
3. Fry-Johnson YW, Levine R, Rowley DL, Agboto V, Rust G. United States Black: White Infant Mortality Disparities Are Not Inevitable: Identification of Community Resilience Independent of Socioeconomic Status. Ethnicity and Diseases, 20: S1:131-135, 2010.
4. Levine R, Rust G, Pisu M, Agboto V, Baltrus P, Briggs N, Zoorob R, Juarez P, Hull PC, Goldzweig I, Hennekens C. Increased Black-White Disparities in Mortality Following Life-Saving Innovations: A Possible Consequence of United States Federal Laws. American Journal of Public Health (In Press).
5. Agboto V, Nachtsheim C, Li W. A comparison of two Bayesian approaches for constructing model robust designs. Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice (Submitted).
6. Agboto V, Levine R, Rust G, Pisu M, Baltrus P, Hennekens C. A New Paradigm for the Epidemiological Health Disparity Study Designs using a Bayesian approach. American Journal of Epidemiology (In Progress).