Allan David Tate
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health
Director of Biostatistics, Center for Advanced Computer-Human Ecosystems (CACHE)
Georgia CTSA Co-Director, UGA Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Research Design (BERD)
Faculty Affiliate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Allan identifies as a social epidemiologist and family demographer, and his research is at the intersection of family systems and child cardiometabolic health across the life course. His research also addresses environmental health challenges for how heat stress and mass climatological trauma affects clinical and population health and the social mechanisms that exacerbate existing health disparities. Allan is an expert in the design, implementation, and evaluation of ecological momentary assessment intensive longitudinal data and leverages quantitative and qualitative mixed methods to identify intervention targets that promote pre-adolescent and adult health. He maintains a lab of data scientists and epidemiologists who are equipped to design and evaluate observational and experimental study designs, and he employs a collaborative coaching model to train future practitioners and researchers for interdisciplinary public health research. He is a co-investigator and site PI for the Family Matters study that explores how family-level stressors, food insecurity, and structural racism and discrimination affect whole-person, mental and cardiometabolic health across the life course, serves as PI for a community-based disaster mitigation intervention in partnership with Athens-Clarke County local government through communication and transportation technology innovations, is co-investigator for the evaluation of two virtual reality interventions to affect positive marital functioning and child physical activity, and manages the analytic core for a Department of Air Force behavioral intervention to improve airmen financial readiness. He serves as Director of Biostatistics for the Center for Advanced Computer-Human Ecosystems (CACHE) and as Co-Director representing UGA for the Georgia CTSA Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design Unit (BERD). He is engaged in the development of open-source wearables for momentary cardiovascular health assessment in local and global settings as well as generative artificial intelligence tools to reduce costs and to improve quality of otherwise cost-intensive direct observational research in the health social sciences. Allan is not currently recruiting new doctoral students for the Fall 2026 admissions cycle.
For university members (students, staff, and faculty) of the GA CTSA who would like to request a consultation with Dr. Tate, please submit a formal CTSA request at the following landing page https://georgiactsa.org/research/berd/index.html
