Frances McCarty, Assistant Professor
Frances A. McCarty, Ph.D.
E-mail: alhfam@langate.gsu.edu
Office Phone: 404-413-1141
Fax: 404-413-1140
Address:
946 Urban Life Building
Research and teaching interests:
Research Methods
Behavioral Statistics
Scale Development and Item Response Theory
Application of SEM and Multilevel Modeling to Public Health Data
Nutrition and Exercise Including Obesity Prevention
Mental Health
Dr. McCarty is an assistant professor in the Institute of Public Health where she will teach and provide methodological and statistical expertise to research projects. Prior to joining the faculty, Dr. McCarty worked for Emory University for seven years as a statistician and research assistant professor in the Behavioral Sciences and Health Education department in the Rollins School of Public Health. She was the primary statistician for a number of NIH funded community-based intervention studies. Her work on these projects allowed her to develop advanced skills related to working with large, multi-level data sets for the purpose of testing intervention effects as well as testing theoretically based models. She has contributed to numerous journal publications and conference presentations related to these projects. She has served as the primary statistician for projects focused on a variety of topics including: HIV prevention, nutrition and exercise, HIV medication adherence, epilepsy self management, skin cancer prevention, obesity prevention, and interventions for heart failure patients. Prior to her Emory position, Dr. McCarty was an assistant project director for a five-year grant at GSU that focused on Head Start program quality and child outcomes where she was primarily responsible for data analysis. At Emory, Dr. McCarty taught a Measurement in Health Behaviors course and an Advanced Research Design and Analysis course. Since 1997, she has served as a part-time instructor in the Educational Policy Studies department in the College of Education at GSU teaching graduate level methods of research and statistics courses.
Dr. McCarty received her Ph.D. in Research, Measurement and Statistics from Georgia State University. She also has an M.Ed. in Exercise Physiology from the University of Virginia.
Dr. McCarty's C.V. is available in PDF format.
