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David M. Murray PhD

David M. Murray PhD
ProfessorCollege of Public Healthdmurray@cph.osu.edu
B222 Starling Loving Hall 320 W 10th Avenue Columbus OH 43210
Phone:614-293-2928Fax: 614-293-3937
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General Research Interest

design and analysis of group-randomized trials in health promotion and disease prevention research

Research Description

Dr. Murray has spent his career evaluating intervention programs designed to improve the public health. He has worked with all age groups, in a variety of settings, and with a variety of health behaviors and disease outcomes. In particular, Dr. Murray has focused on the design and analysis of group-randomized trials in which identifiable social groups are randomized to conditions and members of those groups are observed to assess the effect of an intervention. Dr. Murray wrote the first textbook on that material, published by Oxford University Press in 1998. He is actively involved in many of these trials, collaborating with colleagues around the country on their design, implementation and evaluation. He also conducts research to develop and test new methods for their analysis. Dr. Murray served as the first as Chair of the Community-Level Heath Promotion study section at NIH and recently returned to that study section

Transinstitutional Work

Dr. Murray holds an adjunct appointment at Johns Hopkins University in the Bloomberg School of Public Health where he collaborates with faculty in the Department of Mental Health.  He collaborates on other research with colleagues in the School of Social work at the University of Washington, in the Schools of Public Health at the University of Minnesota and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and in the School of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts.

Current Publications

  • Lytle LA, Murray DM, Laska MN, Pasch KE, Anderson SE, Farbakhsh KExamining the longitudinal relationship between change in sleep and obesity risk in adolescents.Health Educ Behav 40(3) 362-70 6/1/2013
  • Xu X, Pennell ML, Lu B, Murray DMEfficient Bayesian joint models for group randomized trials with multiple observation times and multiple outcomes.Stat Med 31(24) 2858-71 10/30/2012
  • Paskett ED, Katz ML, Post DM, Pennell ML, Young GS, Seiber EE, Harrop JP, Degraffinreid CR, Tatum CM, Dean JA, Murray DMThe Ohio Patient Navigation Research Program: does the American Cancer Society patient navigation model improve time to resolution in patients with abnormal screening tests?Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 21(10) 1620-8 10/1/2012
  • Roetzheim RG, Freund KM, Corle DK, Murray DM, Snyder FR, Kronman AC, Jean-Pierre P, Raich PC, Holden AE, Darnell JS, Warren-Mears V, Patierno SAnalysis of combined data from heterogeneous study designs: an applied example from the patient navigation research program.Clin Trials 9(2) 176-87 4/1/2012
  • Laska MN, Murray DM, Lytle LA, Harnack LJLongitudinal associations between key dietary behaviors and weight gain over time: transitions through the adolescent years.Obesity (Silver Spring) 20(1) 118-25 1/1/2012
  • Rhoda DA, Murray DM, Andridge RR, Pennell ML, Hade EMStudies with staggered starts: multiple baseline designs and group-randomized trials.Am J Public Health 101(11) 2164-9 11/1/2011
  • Taber DR, Stevens J, Evenson KR, Ward DS, Poole C, Maciejewski ML, Murray DM, Brownson RCState policies targeting junk food in schools: racial/ethnic differences in the effect of policy change on soda consumption.Am J Public Health 101(9) 1769-75 9/1/2011
  • Troyer MB, Ferketich AK, Murray DM, Paskett ED, Wewers MCharacteristics of rural Appalachian women who enroll in a tobacco dependence treatment clinical trial.Nicotine Tob Res 13(9) 880-5 9/1/2011
  • Fagundes CP, Murray DM, Hwang BS, Gouin JP, Thayer JF, Sollers JJ 3rd, Shapiro CL, Malarkey WB, Kiecolt-Glaser JKSympathetic and parasympathetic activity in cancer-related fatigue: more evidence for a physiological substrate in cancer survivors.Psychoneuroendocrinology 36(8) 1137-47 9/1/2011
  • Pennell ML, Hade EM, Murray DM, Rhoda DACutoff designs for community-based intervention studies.Stat Med 30(15) 1865-82 7/10/2011
  • Walsh BH, Murray DM, Boylan GBThe use of conventional EEG for the assessment of hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy in the newborn: a review.Clin Neurophysiol 122(7) 1284-94 7/1/2011