Dr. Howe's research interests include quantitative epidemiologic methods for unbiased inference in the context of observational studies. Particular areas of interest include methods for addressing confounding and selection bias as well as pertaining to mediation analysis. She is also interested in developing and applying advanced methods to (1) examine the link between alcohol use and HIV as well as (2) identify the sources of racial disparities in HIV infection and disease progression.

Biography

Dr. Howe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology within the Program in Public Health. She has an appointment with the Center for Population Health and Clinical Epidemiology and is a member of the Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research. She received her PhD in Epidemiology as well as an MHS in Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2009. Prior to attending Johns Hopkins, Dr. Howe obtained an MPH in Epidemiology from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in 2004.

Awards

National Institutes of Health Clinical Loan Repayment Program – National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Society for Epidemiologic Research 2010 Poster Prize

Delta Omega National Public Health Honor Society - Alpha Chapter

Bloomberg School of Public Health Predoctoral Minority Health Scholarship

Mailman School of Public Health Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity Fellowship

Mailman School of Public Health Phoenix Fellowship

Affiliations

Society for Epidemiologic Research

Funded Research

U24 AA022003 (C. Kahler, PI)
September 2012 to August 2016
NIH/NIAAA
Mechanisms of Behavior Change Resource Core for Alcohol-HIV Interventions
Role: Co-investigator

K22 AI095021 (C. Howe, PI)
February 2012 to January 2014
NIH/NIAID
Missed visits and virologic failure among HIV infected African Americans receiving medical care

R01 AA017594 (S. Cole, PI)
NIH/NIAAA
June 2009 to July 2011
Structural models and direct and indirect effects of alcohol use on HIV infection
Role: Post Doctoral Research Associate

F31 DA022114 (C. Howe, PI)
NIH/NIDA
September 2006 to June 2009
Methods for informative censoring in HIV/AIDS cohorts

Courses Taught

• Advanced Quantitative Methods in Epidemiologic Research (PHP 2250)
• Methodological Issues in the Epidemiology, Treatment, and Prevention of HIV (PHP 2220H)

Selected Publications

• Howe CJ, Cole SR, Mehta SH, Kirk GD. Estimating the effects of multiple time-varying exposures using joint marginal structural models: alcohol consumption, injection drug use, and HIV acquisition. Epidemiology. 2012 Jul;23(4):574-82(2012)
• Howe CJ, Cole SR, Ostrow DG, Mehta SH, Kirk GD. A prospective study of alcohol consumption and HIV acquisition among injection drug users. AIDS. 2011 Jan 14;25(2):221-8.(2011)
• Howe CJ, Cole SR, Chmiel JS, Muñoz A. Limitation of inverse probability-of-censoring weights in estimating survival in the presence of strong selection bias. Am J Epidemiol. 2011 Mar 1;173(5):569-77.(2011)
• Naimi AI, Kaufman JS, Howe CJ, Robinson WR. Mediation considerations: serum potassium and the racial disparity in diabetes risk. Am J Clin Nutr. 2011 Aug;94(2):614-6.(2011)
• Howe CJ, Cole SR, Westreich DJ, Greenland S, Napravnik S, Enron JJ. Splines for trend analysis and continuous confounder control. Epidemiology. 2011 Nov; 22(6): 874-875.(2011)
• Smith LB, Fadrowski JJ, Howe CJ, Fivush BA, Neu AM, Furth SL. Secondary hyperparathyroidism and anemia in children treated by hemodialysis. Am J Kidney Dis. 2010 Feb;55(2):326-34.(2010)
• Howe CJ, Sander PM, Plankey MW, Cole SR. Effects of time-varying exposures adjusting for time-varying confounders: the case of alcohol consumption and risk of incident human immunodeficiency virus infection. Int J Public Health. 2010 Jun;55(3):227-8.(2010)
• Howe CJ, Cole SR, Napravnik S, Eron JJ. Enrollment, retention, and visit attendance in the University of North Carolina Center for AIDS Research HIV clinical cohort, 2001-2007. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2010 Aug;26(8):875-81.(2010)
• Howe CJ, Fuller CM, Ompad DC, Galea S, Koblin B, Thomas D, Vlahov D. Association of sex, hygiene and drug equipment sharing with hepatitis C virus infection among non-injecting drug users in New York City. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2005 Sep 1;79(3):389-95.(2005)