Senior Evaluator
Dr. Sarpong designs and implements the Evaluation Plan for the CDEP. He also currently serves as the Director of the Center for Minority Health Disparities Research and Education at Xavier University in Louisiana, and an Associate Professor of Biostatistics. Until recently, he was also the Associate Director of the RCMI Center for Environmental Health at Jackson State University, Jackson Mississippi, and Senior Biostatistician for Translational Research. From 1988 to the present, he has been engaged in biostatistical work, as Primary and Co-Principal Investigator. His honors include the Jackson State University Research Visionary Award in 1006, and the Endowed Teaching Fellowship through W.K. Kellogg Foundation. From 1994 to Present, he has served as Chairperson of the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s African American Researchers and Scholars Group. He has worked on more than 17 NIH and related research grants, and has written over 70 publications, a book chapter, more than 10 published abstracts, and has made more than 80 conference presentations. His skills range from statistical programming, computer applications, and his personal skills that include leadership ability and professional speaker and trainer, and describes himself as independent, diplomatic, enthusiastic, and intellectually aggressive