Dr. Annie B. Fox is an Associate Professor of Healthcare Data Analytics in the School of Healthcare Leadership. Trained as a social psychologist and quantitative methodologist, Dr. Fox teaches courses in statistics and quantitative methods across several of the graduate programs at the Institute, and provides mentorship, consultation, and statistical support to faculty across the IHP and PhD students in Rehabilitation Sciences. She is committed to collaborative, team-based, interdisciplinary research with a focus on improving health and well-being.
Dr. Fox’s methodological interests involve the application of advanced statistical techniques to the analysis of longitudinal data. She has extensive experience and expertise in latent variable, mixture, and multilevel modeling. As a methodologist at the IHP, Dr. Fox’s collaborations often involve applying these advanced statistical techniques to health, education, and rehabilitation research. Dr. Fox currently serves as a statistician, methodologist, or co-investigator on 11 NIH funded grants.
As a social psychologist, Dr. Fox is interested in the conceptualization, measurement, and consequences of mental illness stigma. Her current research, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, is focused on better understanding the longitudinal relationships between stigma and mental health in young adults in order to determine the optimal timing for stigma interventions and increase rates of treatment seeking. Dr. Fox welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with faculty and PhD students who are interested in better understanding the role of stigma in health and rehabilitation research.
Dr. Fox’s research has been published in national and international journals, including Nature Reviews Psychology, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Clinical Psychological Science, Journal of Affective Disorders, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy, Psychology of Women Quarterly, and Stigma & Health.