Samuel J. Clark

Samuel J. Clark

I am a demographer, epidemiologist, and aspiring statistician who develops new methods and investigates population dynamics and epidemiology in low- and middle-income countries, with a focus in Africa.

I work as a professor in the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University (OSU), and I am a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Population Research and the Translational Data Analytics Institute, both at OSU. I am affiliated with the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington and the School of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Most recently, I have been working on a survey to estimate the prevalence of the coronavirus and an excess deaths study to characterize the total burden of mortality associated with the COVID-19 epidemic. Both projects are in the state of Ohio, USA, and are conducted in close coordination with the Ohio State Department of Health.

On an ongoing basis, I develop mortality models and work to improve: 1) verbal autopsy as a tool to measure burden of disease, 2) mathematical models of human mortality, 3) indirect estimates of child mortality, and 4) small-area estimates of mortality. I also coordinate a small team developing software to implement new methods - mostly for verbal autopsy and mathematical models of human mortality.

Contact

Ohio State University

clark.2962@osu.edu
+1 (206) 303-9620
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07 February 2014 | descriptive finding

Male and female sterility in Zambia

Athena Pantazis, Samuel J. Clark

Volume: 30 Article ID: 14
Pages: 413–428
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2014.30.14

03 December 2013 | research article

The age pattern of increases in mortality affected by HIV

David Sharrow, Samuel J. Clark, Mark Collinson, Kathleen Kahn, Stephen Tollman

Volume: 29 Article ID: 39
Pages: 1039–1096
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2013.29.39

12 December 2012 | research article

Estimates of Age-Specific Reductions in HIV Prevalence in Uganda: Bayesian Melding Estimation and Probabilistic Population Forecast with an HIV-enabled Cohort Component Projection Model

Samuel J. Clark, Jason Thomas, Le Bao

Volume: 27 Article ID: 26
Pages: 743–774
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2012.27.26

25 April 2012 | research article

Estimating trends in the total fertility rate with uncertainty using imperfect data

Leontine Alkema, Adrian E. Raftery, Patrick Gerland, Samuel J. Clark, Francois Pelletier

Volume: 26 Article ID: 15
Pages: 331–362
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2012.26.15

05 July 2011 | research article

More on the Cohort-Component Model of Population Projection in the Context of HIV/AIDS: A Leslie Matrix Representation and New Estimates

Jason Thomas, Samuel J. Clark

Volume: 25 Article ID: 2
Pages: 39–102
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2011.25.2

13 October 2006 | research article

A general temporal data model and the structured population event history register

Samuel J. Clark

Volume: 15 Article ID: 7
Pages: 181–252
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2006.15.7

30 March 2005 | research article

Toward a Unified Timestamp with explicit precision

Justus Benzler, Samuel J. Clark

Volume: 12 Article ID: 6
Pages: 107–140
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.12.6

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