Emil Coman

Ph.D.

Dr. Coman specializes in research methodology from several fields. He has been trained in emotions by his late communications mentor Ross Buck, in statistical modeling (through a path analysis backdoor) by Dave Kenny, and in causality by Judea Pearl. He works directly with UConn’s Public Health Sciences and Family Medicine departments and assists medical students, residents, and faculty from UConn Health, UConn Storrs (and elsewhere) with research projects, grants, and publications. His applied work is mainly in the health disparities field, where he applies modern analytical methods from across several domains, like epidemiology, econometrics, social sciences, and ‘pure’ statistics. He applies spatial, mapping and spatial econometrics tools to health disparities and health equity inquiries, as well as causality-informed analytical tools like ‘latent changes’, indirect effects and ‘causal’ mediation. He developed a causality guide (work in progress) and provides more technical (and applied) statistical advice in a blog.