
ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH AND PROFESSOR OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Michael Oakes is Associate Vice President for Research and Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining university administration and co-founding the IRL program, Michael was an active researcher on a wide variety of NIH, NSF and RWJF funded studies addressing a vast array of methodological, health, social and ethical topics. He has authored over 130 papers exploring problems at the intersection of social and health sciences and the second edition of his book, Methods in Social Epidemiology, was released in 2017.