Loretta Cain PhD, MPH

Dr. Loretta R. Cain, a biostatistician in the John D. Bower School of Population Health at UMMC, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an assistant professor of data science.

After receiving her B.S. in chemistry from Tougaloo College in 2005, Cain earned her M.P.H. in epidemiology and biostatistics at Jackson State University in 2008 and her Ph.D. in epidemiology and biostatistics at West Virginia University in 2011. She served as a statistician in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Chicago from 2011-15 before joining Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mississippi as a health data analyst. She then joined the School of Population Health in 2016.

She has been an online adjunct faculty member since 2011 at both Grand Canyon University and Purdue Global. Since 2014, she also has served as an online contributing faculty member for the Ph.D. Public Health Research Program in the College of Health Sciences at Walden University.

Cain has been a reviewer of Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation for BMC Public Health and has made scientific presentations at the North American Primary Research Group annual meeting, American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, EpiLifestyle Scientific Sessions, and the American Public Health Association. She is the author or coauthor of 12 articles in peer-reviewed publications that address health outcomes in minority, rural, and low-income populations.