João Ricardo Vissoci, PhD
Associate Director for Education, RDAC
Assistant Professor, Surgery and Neurosurgery
Assistant Research Professor in Global Health
Joao is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Emergency Medicine and co-leader of the Global Emergency Medicine Innovation and Implementation (GEMINI) Research Lab; he joined the DGHI Research Design and Analysis Core in 2018. Joao is also a lead member of the MATH Consortium, a network for data scientists focused on public health and health systems evaluation.
Prior to joining the faculty, Joao was a post-doctoral scholar in DGHI. Prior to Duke, he was an Assistant Professor of Public Health and Psychology Faculdade Ingá in Maringá, Brazil. With a PhD in social psychology, Joao has dedicated his career to research methodology and data science. He is particularly interested in innovative mixed method study designs, psychometrics, latent variable modelling, machine learning and geospatial analysis.
Joao has experience in Measurement, Population Health, Mental Health and Health Systems. Joao has actively worked in Brazil, Tanzania and Uganda on topics related to understanding population health, health systems, innovative trial design and quality of care through geospatial analysis and geostatistics.