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Dr. Gaines is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, specializing in Infectious Disease and Global Public Health. He is a trained biostatistician whose work focuses on modeling the interactions between social conditions, geographic location, and individual characteristics. Using advanced spatial statistical analyses and diverse study designs, including cross-sectional, retrospective, and longitudinal approaches, Dr. Gaines's current research leverages geographic information system (GIS) technologies to visualize and analyze the physical features of residential environments and how they relate to unsafe sexual and drug-using behaviors. His work is significant in understanding the implications of physical environments on public health outcomes, particularly in the context of HIV/AIDS and broader public health statistics.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).