Carol Gilbert, PhD, MS

Assistant Professor

Senior Health Data Analyst, CityMatCH
Department of Health Promotion
University of Nebraska Medical Center
College of Public Health

Professional Summary 

• June 2023-present, Assistant Professor, Health Promotion; Senior Health Data Analyst, CityMatCH; College of Public Health; University of Nebraska Medical Center
• October 2021 to June 2023 Assistant Professor and Senior Health Data Analyst, CityMatCH and the Division of Child Health Policy, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center
• Senior Health Data Analyst, CityMatCH, Division of Child Health Policy, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center January 2013 - October 2021
• Health Data Analyst, CityMatCH, Division of Child Health Policy, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center January 2004 – January 2013
• Health Data Analyst, Department of Family Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center January 1989 - May 1996
  
  

Education

• PhD, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Medical Sciences Interdepartmental Area (Preventive and Societal Medicine), 2021, Omaha, Nebraska
• MS, University of Iowa, Mathematical Statistics, 1987, Iowa City, Iowa
• Mathematics Coursework University of Nebraska Omaha, 1983-1985
• BS, University of Nebraska, Mechanical Engineering, 1981, Lincoln, Nebraska
  

Research interests

My primary research goal is to improve the way communities use local data, research findings, and other information for planning and decision-making. This includes work on the impact of data quality limitations on estimates of preventable mortality, and finding ways to help communities connect their epidemiologic surveillance findings to needed activities or policy changes, including investigating and countering structural racism. The close relationship between CityMatCH and many urban communities provides opportunities to study how data is used in varied circumstances by different audiences.

Selected Publications

• Gilbert CS, Xaverius PK, Tibbits MK, Sappenfield WM. Refreshing the Perinatal Periods of Risk: A New Reference Group and Nationwide Large-County-Level Analyses. Matern Child Health J. 2022 Oct 2. doi: 10.1007/s10995-022-03561-9. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36183285. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36183285/
• Gilbert, Carol S. 2021. Dissertation 'Perinatal Periods of Risk: Examination Of Data Quality & Inclusion Criteria, New Unbiased Reference Groups, And A Nationwide County-Level Analysis'. University of Nebraska Medical Center.
• Consulting Population-Based Data to Inform Fetal and Infant Mortality Review and Community Action Decisions June 2022 (Co-author on publication of the National Center on Fatality Review and Prevention) https://ncfrp.org/wp-content/uploads/Report_Population-Health-and-FIMR-Guidance.pdf    
• Gilbert CS. The Perinatal Periods of Risk Approach: A Quantitative Method That Can Enhance Death Review Processes. American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Child Death Review and Prevention Newsletter. 2022 Fall. Page 3-5.
• Abresch C, Gilbert C, Johnson M, Karki B, Lyons K, Meyer K, Tibbits M, Toure D. Understanding the Emotional Labor of Public Health Equity Work: a Mixed Methods Study. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2022 Mar 31:1–11. doi: 10.1007/s40615-022-01292-9. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35357672; PMCID: PMC8969814.
• Collie-Akers V, Landry S, Ehule NJ, Pecha D, Beltran MM, Gilbert C, Abresch C. Enhancing the Capacity of Local Health Departments to Address Birth Equity: The Institute for Equity in Birth Outcomes. Matern Child Health J. 2021 Jul;25(7):1010-1018. doi: 10.1007/s10995-021-03135-1. Epub 2021 Apr 30. PMID: 33929652; PMCID: PMC8184551.
• Sappenfield WM, Peck MG, Gilbert CS, Haynatzka VR, Bryant T 3rd. Perinatal periods of risk: analytic preparation and phase 1 analytic methods for investigating feto-infant mortality. Matern Child Health J. 2010 Nov;14(6):838-50. doi: 10.1007/s10995-010-0625-4. PMID: 20563881.
• Sappenfield WM, Peck MG, Gilbert CS, Haynatzka VR, Bryant T 3rd. Perinatal periods of risk: phase 2 analytic methods for further investigating feto-infant mortality. Matern Child Health J. 2010 Nov;14(6):851-63. doi: 10.1007/s10995-010-0624-5. PMID: 20559697.
• McVea, Kristine, Benjamin F Crabtree, Jim D Medder, Jeffrey L Susman, Lou Lukas, Helen E McIlvain, Carole M Davis, Carol S Gilbert, and Marlene Hawver. 1996. 'An ounce of prevention? Evaluation of the 'Put Prevention into Practice Program, Journal of Family Practice, 43: 361-69.
• McIlvain, Helen, Jeffrey L Susman, Carole Davis, and Carol Gilbert. 1995. 'Physician counseling for smoking cessation: is the glass half empty?', Journal of Family Practice, 40: 148-52.
   

Professional Affiliations

• American Public Health Association
• Public Health Association of Nebraska