Professor
Biography, Disciplines and Teaching Interests
Dr. Hani Samawi is a tenured Full Professor in Biostatistics and Interim Chair of the BEES department in Jiann-Ping Hsu college of Public Health College at Georgia Southern university. Dr. Samawi received both MSc and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, USA.
Dr. Samawi brings about 28 years of experience teaching statistics and biostatistics undergraduate and graduate courses, research in several biostatistical areas, statistical consultation and academic administrator (Department chair at Yarmouk University and Director of the Karl E. Peace Center for Biostatistics from August 2008 to June 2016 at Georgia Southern University). In addition he became a fellow of the Institute for Interdisciplinary STEM Education, invited editor for the special issue for International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and Associate Editor of Frontiers in Child Health and Human Development. Since July, 2019, he became the interim chair of the department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Environment Health sciences (BEES). Recently, he has been elected as Section Councilor in the Applied Public Health Statistics Section in APHA for three years.
Dr. Samawi research areas are Sampling survey, Bootstrap and Resampling Methods, Parametric and Nonparametric Inference for complete and missing data, Monte Carlo Methods, MCMC Methods, Secondary Data Analysis, Inference for Randomized Clinical Trials, inference under progressive censored data, Meditation Analysis for different types of modeling, latent class Models, medical diagnostics measure and inference and linear and generalized linear models with misclassification.
Disciplines: Biostatistics
Teaching Interests: Statistical Inference and Applied Statistics
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About Hani M. Samawi
Biography, Disciplines and Teaching Interests
Dr. Hani Samawi is a tenured Full Professor in Biostatistics and Interim Chair of the BEES department in Jiann-Ping Hsu college of Public Health College at Georgia Southern university. Dr. Samawi received both MSc and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, USA.
Dr. Samawi brings about 28 years of experience teaching statistics and biostatistics undergraduate and graduate courses, research in several biostatistical areas, statistical consultation and academic administrator (Department chair at Yarmouk University and Director of the Karl E. Peace Center for Biostatistics from August 2008 to June 2016 at Georgia Southern University). In addition he became a fellow of the Institute for Interdisciplinary STEM Education, invited editor for the special issue for International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and Associate Editor of Frontiers in Child Health and Human Development. Since July, 2019, he became the interim chair of the department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Environment Health sciences (BEES). Recently, he has been elected as Section Councilor in the Applied Public Health Statistics Section in APHA for three years.
Dr. Samawi research areas are Sampling survey, Bootstrap and Resampling Methods, Parametric and Nonparametric Inference for complete and missing data, Monte Carlo Methods, MCMC Methods, Secondary Data Analysis, Inference for Randomized Clinical Trials, inference under progressive censored data, Meditation Analysis for different types of modeling, latent class Models, medical diagnostics measure and inference and linear and generalized linear models with misclassification.
Disciplines: Biostatistics
Teaching Interests: Statistical Inference and Applied Statistics
| Present | Faculty Member, Georgia Southern University ‐ Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
| 2021 | The Training in Informatics for Underrepresented Minorities in Public Health (TRIUMPH). |
| University of Minnesota, Georgia Southern University, Bethune-Cookman University, University of South Florida, and 4 public health organizations (Georgia Coastal; HealtHIE Georgia; Minnesota Department of Health; and Volusia County Health Department) | |
| Role: Investigator | |
| Colleague(s): G. Shah (PI) | |
| 2017 - 2018 | Reducing Food Waste as Part of Sustainability Efforts on Georgia Southern Campus |
| Georgia Southern University | |
| Role: Co-PI | |
| Colleague(s): Evans Afriyie-Gyawu (PI), Becky Larson (Co-PI) & Joseph Telfair (Co-I) | |
| $26,470 | |
| 2014 - 2015 | Developing new method of evaluating and testing mediation effect when the mediators and the outcome variables are dichotomous |
| Research Seed Funding Award | |
| Role: PI | |
| Colleague(s): Daniel Linder (Co-PI) | |
| $10,000 | |
| 2012 - 2014 | Identifying Risk Factors Contributing to Obesity in Chatham County, GA Neighborhoods (RIMI SSU NIH Grant) |
| NIH, Federal | |
| Role: PI | |
| Colleague(s): Robert L. Vogel (Co-PI) | |
| $32,750 | |
| 2010 - 2011 | Travel grant for Faculty Development |
| Center for Teaching, Learning and Scholarship, Georgia Southern University | |
| Role: PI | |
| $1,147 | |
| 2010 | Strengthening Research Collaborations in Health Disparities |
| NIH, Federal - 1P20MD003941 | |
| Role: PI | |
| Colleague(s): Robert L. Vogel (PI) | |
| $9,746 | |
| 2009 - 2010 | Developing more efficient tests of symmetry based on ordered samples and overlapping measures: Application to Public Health Problems |
| Georgia Southern University | |
| Role: PI | |
| $12,354 | |
| 2009 | Verification of the Neutralizer process as a PFRP equivalent process for biosolids Disinfection |
| BioChem Resources | |
| $1,100 | |
| 2008 - 2009 | Simulation Study to Investigate the Performance of Runs Test for Symmetry Using Median Ranked Set Sampling and its Applications to Public Health Problems |
| Georgia Southern University | |
| Role: PI | |
| $7,008 | |
| 2006 | Relationship Between Water Intake and Children Health Issues in Jordan |
| WHO | |
| $12,000 | |
| 2001 - 2004 | Statistical consultation and data analysis on voice and speech pathology |
| Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition | |
| Role: Co-PI | |
| Colleague(s): Katherine Verdolini (PI) | |
| $20,000 | |
| 1997 | Attitudes of Jordanian people toward the new rules of the 1996 election for the lower house of Parliament |
| Jordanian Statistics Department | |
| $13,000 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2018 - Present | Member, College Curriculum Committee, GSU | 2017 - Present | Member, Research Committee, GSU | 2016 - Present | Member, Ad-hoc P&T Rubric Development Committee, GSU | 2018 - 2019 | Chair, P&T committee, GSU | 2017 - 2019 | Member, University Level Senate, GSU | 2016 - 2019 | Member, JPHCOPH award of excellence committee, GSU | 2015 - 2019 | Member, College Award Committee, GSU | 2017 - 2018 | Member, College P&T Committee, GSU | 2016 - 2017 | Chair, College P&T Committee, GSU | 2016 - 2017 | Member, University Level Senate, GSU | 2015 - 2016 | Chair, College P&T Committee, GSU | 2015 - 2016 | Member, University Level Senate, GSU | 2014 - 2016 | Member, Teaching Committee, GSU | 2010 - 2016 | Member, Library Committee, GSU | 2014 - 2015 | Chair, College P&T Committee, GSU | 2014 - 2015 | Committee member, College P&T Processing Committee, GSU | 2014 - 2015 | Member, Committee of Academic Standard, GSU | 2014 - 2015 | Member, Faculty Welfare Committee, GSU | 2013 - 2014 | Member, College P&T Committee, GSU | 2012 - 2013 | Member, College P&T Committee, GSU |
Honors and Awards
- Academic Outstanding Award, Yarmouk University, Outstanding Performance in Master Degree (1986)
- Henry Award for Outstanding Performance on Ph.D. Qualifying Examination, University of Iowa (1990)
- Award for Scholarship, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University (2012-2013)
- Georgia Southern University Award for Excellence in Research Nominee (2013, 2014, 2015)
- Award Recipient for Excellence in Research/Creative Scholarly Activity, Georgia Southern University (2017-2018)
Courses
- Bayesian Statistics I (BIOS 9231)
- Statistical Consultation (BIOS 9130)
- Data Analysis with SAS (BIOS 7535)
- Regression Analysis in Biostatistics (BIOS 6331)
- Biostatistics I (PUBH 6541 online)
- Advanced Topics in Biostatistics (PUBH 8130 blended online)
- Experimental Design in Biostatistics (BIOS 6332)
- Data Management for Biostatistics (BIOS 7534)
- Advance Statistical Inference Biostatistics I (BIOS 9131)
- Advance Statistical Inference Biostatistics II (BIOS 9133)
- Meta-Analysis (BIOS 9331)
- Probability (MATH 3337)
- Stat and Prob for K-8 Teachers (MATH 5130)
- Biostatistics I (PUBH 6541)
- Selected Topics in Public Hlth (PUBH 7090)
- Introduction to Statistics I (STAT 2231)
- Sampling & Survey Methods (STAT 5130)
- Sampling & Survey Methods (STAT 5130G)
- Statistical Methods I (STAT 5531)
- Statistical Methods I (STAT 5531G)
- Design of Experiments I (STAT 7231)
- Actuarial Mathematics (STAT 7430)
| 1994 | Ph.D. in Biostatistics, University of Iowa | |
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| 1991 | M.S. in Applied Statistics, University of Iowa | |
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| 1986 | M.S. in Statistics, Yarmouk University | |
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| 1981 | B.S. in Mathematics/Statistics, Yarmouk University | |
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Contact Information
PO Box 8015
Statesboro, GA 30460
Phone: (912) 478-1345
Office: Hendricks Hall
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