Population Epidemiology
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PERSONAL
Office: 233F Powdermaker Hall, CUNY-Queens College, PH-233, Flushing, NY 11367
EMail: CFTurner@PopEpi.org Website:www.PopEpi.org ,
Voicemail: 718-997-2819
EDUCATION
BA, Columbia University, psychology & sociology, 1970
MSc, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1971
PhD, Columbia University, social psychology, 1978
1998 - present CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
PROFESSOR (Emeritus since 2025)
PROGRAM IN DATA ANALYTICS AND APPLIED SOCIAL RESEARCH
Queens College (1998- present) and The Graduate Center (1999-2015)
1991 to 2012 RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE (RTI) — a nonprofit research institute established In 1958 by Duke University, the University of North Carolina, and N.C. State University to foster basic and applied research in science and engineering.
PROGRAM IN HEALTH AND BEHAVIOR MEASUREMENT
Director, 1994-1998; Principal Scientist, 1998-2006
Senior Consultant, 2006 - present
1984 to 1991 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES – NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, WASHINGTON, D.C.
Director, Committee on AIDS Research and the Behavioral, Social, and Statistical Sciences, 1987 to 1991.
Scholar in Residence, 1986 to 1987.
NRC Fellow, 1985 to 1986.
Senior Staff Officer, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, 1984 to 1985.
1982 to 1984 Senior Research Fellow, CENTER FOR SURVEY RESEARCH (UNIVERSITY OF
MASSACHUSETTS AND JOINT CENTER FOR URBAN STUDIES, MIT AND
HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
1976 to 1982 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES – NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, WASHINGTON, D.C.
Study Director, Committee on National Statistics, 1979 to 1982.
Staff Officer, Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1976 to 1978.
1971 to 1972 Research Analyst, YALE UNIVERSITY AND TUNISIAN MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH (Project on Nutrition, Growth, and Development of Children in Tunis), FLORENCE, ITALY, AND TUNIS, TUNISIA.
1970 to 1971 Research Assistant, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
1968 to 1970 Research Assistant to Paul Lazarsfeld, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY &
BUREAU OF APPLIED SOCIAL RESEARCH, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY