Veronica Irvin, Ph.D., MPH

Veronica Irvin, Ph.D., MPH

Associate Professor, Celia Strickland Austin and G. Kenneth Austin III Endowed Professor in Public Health
veronica.irvin@oregonstate.edu

Office: 541-737-1074

Waldo Hall

Waldo Hall 457

2250 SW Jefferson Way

2250 SW Jefferson Way
Corvallis, OR 97331
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Biography

Dr. Irvin earned a MPH in Epidemiology from San Diego State University and a PhD in Public Health, Health Behavior from the joint program at UC San Diego and San Diego State University. She worked for 10 years at San Diego State University on NIH-funded behavioral epidemiological surveys and behavioral interventions. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the National Institutes of Health, Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research. While at NIH, she conducted comparative effectiveness analyses related to mammography screening, including a meta-analysis of quasi-experiments (and population-level estimates of non-normal results, follow-up care and diagnosis following mammography (Irvin, Kaplan et al, Women’s Health Issues, 2015).  She assessed the effects of trial registration on primary outcome reporting among large-budget cardio-vascular interventions (Kaplan & Irvin, Plos One, 2015; Irvin & Kaplan, Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2015). She joined the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at OSU in 2014. Dr. Irvin has broad experience in NIH-funded research in tobacco control, nutrition, physical activity, bone health, cancer and environmental health exposures.

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