James Scott Parrott

Medicine and Public Policy Professor, School of Health Professions, Rutgers University

Biography

Dr. Parrott has over 30 years of experience as a methodological and statistical consultant in both academic and non-academic settings. He has contributed to a broad range of areas, including medical and healthcare research, veterans’ health, public health, evidence-based medicine, childhood obesity, and urban poverty. His recent work centers on evidence synthesis methods, with a particular emphasis on elucidating the etiological role of airborne hazards in disease. This research integrates genetic/transcriptional, epidemiological, and toxicological evidence, and has directly informed U.S. Veterans Administration policy on presumptive injury. In addition to expertise in statistical modeling for complex interventions and evaluation studies, he has supported numerous projects in personalized medicine, behavioral health, epidemiology, and clinical trials. He currently serves as a professor at Rutgers University, holding appointments in the Departments of Nutritional Sciences, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the School of Public Health. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University. Currently, he directs the School of Health Professions Methodology and Statistics Support Team at Rutgers, a center dedicated to advancing faculty research and grant development.