Howard Andrews, PhD

Howard Andrews is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Biostatistics at Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center (CUIMC). He holds a doctorate in biopsychology and a master’s degree in biostatistics. Dr. Andrews is the founding director of the Data Coordinating Center (DCC) which serves the research community at CUIMC and the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI). The DCC has provided comprehensive data-related services to the WHO Center for Global Mental Health for more than a decade. Dr. Andrews also serves as head of the data management and statistics core for a number of ongoing longitudinal studies: the Columbia Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (currently in it’s 34th year of continuous funding), the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health (25 years) and the Alzheimer Biomarker Consortium—Down Syndrome (10 years) and has designed and overseen the development and implementation of data capture systems for a large number of randomized clinical trials, ‘big data’ initiatives and observational studies, including the ongoing international initiatives Genomics of Schizophrenia in the South African Xhosa and OnTrackChile for First Episode Psychosis. Dr. Andrews is an active participant in data analysis and manuscript preparation; he is an author or co-author of more than 200 peer-reviewed articles which together have been cited over 26,000 times, achieving an H-index of 80.