Sean D. Cleary, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Sean D. Cleary is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand, Professor Cleary worked with the Thai Ministry of Health in the Malaria and Filariasis Control Programs. After returning to the United States, he pursued graduate training at Tulane University in epidemiology, and then a doctorate at Columbia in psychiatric epidemiology. Dr. Cleary's current research focuses on using small-area analysis to explain disparities in premature mortality due to heart disease and in the incidence of end-stage renal disease. Dr. Cleary has published on adolescent risk and health behaviors and on family and community violence related to the onset of substance use and illegal activities. He is also interested in spatial analysis, structural equation and multi-level modeling. In addition to his teaching and research responsibilities at the School, Dr. Cleary is director of the Ph.D. Epidemiology Program, offered at GWU's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. He also serves as an SPHHS representative on the Medical Center Executive Committee.

Master of Public Health (Epidemiology), Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1990
Doctor of Philosophy (Psychiatric Epidemiology), Columbia University, 1996

PubH 6247-Design of Health Studies, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
PubH 6252-Advanced Epidemiology Methods, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
PubH 8419- Measurement in Public Health and Health Services Research, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dr. Cleary is principal investigator on a number of studies with the National Minority Health Month Foundation and co-investigator with the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health, including an evaluation of the effectiveness of the Spirituality and Medicine Education Program at the GWU Medical School. He was part of a group that reviewed epidemiologic studies of the MMR vaccine and autism for the Institute of Medicine Immunization Safety Review Committee.

Professor Cleary is a peer reviewer for the Journal of the National Medical Association, a soccer coach and leader of a Destination Imagination team of fourth graders.