Dr. Loni Philip Tabb is Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, and Urban Health Collaborative Research and Data Core Co-Lead at Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health.
Dr. Tabb received her MS (2005) and BS (2003) in Mathematics from Drexel University, and her PhD (2010) and AM (2007) degrees in Biostatistics from Harvard University. Her doctoral work focused on developing novel methods to address excessive zeros in longitudinal count data, with applications in environmental, health, and social disparities settings.
Since joining the faculty at Drexel, her research has focused primarily on spatial and spatio-temporal statistics and epidemiology with applications in health and social disparities, violence, and toxicity studies. Much of Dr. Tabb’s work involves using Bayesian statistical methods in the presence of complex data structures. Earlier research focused on the intersection of alcohol and violence in urban settings, with a more recent focus on the additional impact of marijuana access and availability, given the changing landscape of legalization of marijuana in the US.
More recently, Dr. Tabb has concentrated her research efforts on the intersection of health and place, specifically as it applies to cardiovascular health. In particular, she develops and utilizes novel spatial and spatio-temporal statistical methods to look at the local and national geographic patterns of Black-White inequities in this country. She also focuses her efforts on developing and utilizing methods used to statistically operationalize structural racism and measure its impact on various health and social outcomes.
