James J Grady

Professor, Public Health Sciences

Department of Public Health Sciences


Research Area(s) of Interest: Statistical methods

Dr. James Grady received his doctoral degree in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1992 and joined the University of Texas Medical Branch faculty in 1993. He also has an MPH from Yale and went to Fordham University in New York City for undergraduate.  He joined the faculty at UConn Health in 2011 and is currently director of the Biostatistics Center in the Connecticut Convergence Institute and Professor of Public Health Sciences in the School of Medicine. 

He has over 25 years of research experience as the lead biostatistician for numerous NIH-funded collaborative studies involving clinical and translational science in large scale population based studies and basic science. Dr Grady has for over 15 years provided service to NIH as a grant reviewer for NIDCR and NIDDK for secondary data analysis and statistical methodology grants. He is past president of the Association of Clinical and Translational Statisticians.  Educational roles include teaching a core course in the MCTR program and training PhD students through graduate research internships. 

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James Grady
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