Neal D. Goldstein, PhD, MBI, FCPP holds a doctorate in epidemiology and a master's degree in biomedical informatics. He is an experienced epidemiologist with over a decade of work in the design and conduct of observational research studies in the clinical and public health spheres with over eighty peer-reviewed publications in leading biomedical journals. His expertise is in research design and analysis of healthcare data, especially electronic health records, as well as methods to account for bias and improve study validity. He has applied this expertise primarily to infectious diseases including blood borne pathogens (HIV and hepatitis C), COVID-19, vaccine preventable diseases, and healthcare associated infections. His work has been funded by federal, academic, and private sources, and he is a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. More info can be found on his website, www.goldsteinepi.com.

Research key words: Data Analysis Methods, eHealth or mHealth, Infectious Disease, Maternal and Child Health, Clinical research, Spatial Analysis or GIS, Statistical Modeling, Vaccines and vaccinations, Electronic medical records/informatics, Translational epidemiology