Melanie Bell Email and Phone Number

Melanie Bell, PhD, MS is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Before she retired, she was the Head of the Biostatistics and Design core at the Center for Health Disparities Research, University of Arizona and a member of the Executive Committee of the Statistics Graduate Inter-Disciplinary Program. Her research focus is statistical methods for handling missing data in individual and cluster randomized trials, and the design and analysis of studies using patient reported outcomes. She is currently engaged in collaborative research in the fields of health disparities, chronic disease prevention, tobacco cessation and psycho-oncology. She has over 175 peer reviewed papers including 35 that are methodological. She has served on several data and safety monitoring boards, research advisory committees and grant review sections. Dr Bell has mentored individuals ranging from undergraduates to post-docs and junior faculty, and has served on mentoring committees for successful K-awards.