Jim Anthony Research
JimLab is the newest iteration of the ELCID units launched 30 years ago at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene & Public Health and 20 years ago here at MSU. ELCID stands for Electronic Collaboratory for Investigations about Drugs. ELCID morphed into JimLab as more and more of our unit research trainees wished to expand the scope of their studies beyond the original ELCID domain of drugs research.
ELCID work always focused on estimation of population parameters that reflect linkages, sometimes causal sometimes non-causal, between what we now call 'ancestor' predictors and the later steps in a process that leads from the first chance to try alcohol, tobacco, or some other drug onward toward later steps that might include a fatal opioid overdose.
More recently, the JimLab work at MSU has shifted its orientation to encompass disturbances of mental health and behavior as observed across the stages of the human life-span, with a concentration of research on depression and other mood disturbances.
A defining feature of the JimLab work includes a deliberate focus on becoming a newly incident case and the population parameters that reflect 'forces of morbidity' in the sense of new onsets. Other research groups focus on 'being a case' and the prevalence parameter estimates. In contrast, it is rare for us to produce estimates about 'being a case' because we more often focus upon 'becoming a case.' This distinction between 'being' and 'becoming' is crucial as we think our way through the epidemiological estimation puzzles we try to solve.
CURRENT JIMLAB MEMBERS
Kelsey Abner
Kelsey Abner is a Junior studying Supply Chain Management with a minor in Global Public Health and Epidemiology Learn More
Tamanna is an Epidemiology Ph.D. student at the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. I finished my undergraduate studies in dentistry in Bangladesh. Learn More
Alexandra (Alex) Beck
Alexandra Beck is a Freshman pursuing majors in Biochemistry and Neuroscience with minors in Pharmacology and Toxicology as well as Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Learn More
James Hosner
James Hosner is an MS Epidemiology student at Michigan State University with Professor Jim Anthony as lead advisor. Learn More
Taarini Negi
Taarini Ajit Negi is a sophomore studying Data Science. She joined the JimLab in 2023 through the honors college and the Pathway to Research program. Learn More
Claire Shertzing
Claire Schertzing is a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Michigan State University and serves as the president of BEAMS Learn More
Landon Stallman
Landon Stallmann is a Freshman studying Actuarial Science with a Minor in Mathematics. Learn More