Biography:

Dr. Jacob C. Warren is a native of Georgia and alumnus of Georgia Southern University, having earned a B.S. in Mathematics as part of the first graduating class of the University Honors Program. He then remained at GSU to earn a B.S. in Biology before pursuing graduate studies. His interest in research was sparked through participating in a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at Northern Arizona University where he developed new methods for extinction modeling in endangered species. Following his degrees at Georgia Southern, he earned a Ph.D. in Epidemiology at the University of Miami School of Medicine. His dissertation research focused on the creation of a mathematical model of mortality in the United States to illustrate health disparities expressed in disproportionate mortality burdens by race and region of residence in the United States.

While working on his doctorate, he served as a research associate in the Behavioral Health Promotion Program (BHPP), a grant-funded research group dedicated to designing and testing novel drug use and HIV prevention interventions in Hispanic populations. A major focus of the research group was investigating the use of the internet as a recruitment tool and as an intervention delivery modality. After receiving his doctorate, he remained with the BHPP for two years as a research assistant professor, serving as co-investigator on three NIH grants and as project director of the Fort Lauderdale site of a six-site CDC-funded intervention study.

Dr. Warren’s research interests include behavioral health, obesity, risk-taking behavior, population-level health, health disparities, HIV prevention in minority populations, application of mathematical models to epidemiology, and use of the internet in study recruitment and intervention delivery.