Samuel J. Clark
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Samuel J. Clark | |
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| Born | 1969 (age 55–56) Kenya |
| Known for | openVA |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Washington, The Ohio State University |
| Thesis | An Investigation into the Impact of HIV on Population Dynamics in Africa (2001) |
| Doctoral advisor | Samuel H. Preston |
| Website | samclark |
Samuel J. "Sam" Clark is a demographer with expertise in epidemiology and data science. He has worked as a professor in the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University and the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington. He is an expert on ascertaining cause of death using verbal autopsy.[1]
Clark earned B.S. degrees in engineering and biology from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1993 and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in demography from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995 and 2001, respectively. His Ph.D. titled "An Investigation into the Impact of HIV on Population Dynamics in Africa" was supervised by Samuel H. Preston.
Career
In 2000, Clark started a five-year postdoc at the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS), University of Colorado at Boulder. During that time he worked with the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance Site in South Africa and the INDEPTH Network of health and demographic surveillance sites in Africa and Asia. He worked to maintain and grow both the site and the network and to investigate population and health issues affecting Africans. In 2005, Clark joined the faculty of the University of Washington as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and was promoted to associate professor in 2011.[2] In 2016, he was promoted to full professor and moved to the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University. Clark has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and comments, and his combined work has been cited more than 5,000 times.[3]
