Writing Dissertation and Grant Proposals: Epidemiology, Preventive Medicine, and Biostatistics
Dr. Lisa Chasan-Taber is a Professor of Epidemiology and the former Associate Dean for Research at the School of Public Health & Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dr. Chasan-Taber has had a history of continual funding from NIH and national foundations throughout her research career. She has been a standing member on National Institutes of Health (NIH) review panels, a mentor on NIH Research Career Development Awards, and the Principal Investigator of mentoring grants designed to provide early-career faculty with successful grant-writing strategies.?For more than 20 years, she has taught a class on grant proposal writing for graduate students which formed the basis for this textbook. Dr. Chasan-Taber has been recognized for her research through the Chancellor’s Medal, the highest recognition bestowed to faculty by the university. Dr. Chasan-Taber received her post-doctoral and doctoral training in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.