Jack Cordes

Dr. Cordes is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. He is a spatial epidemiologist with expertise in geographic information systems, geostatistics, epidemiologic methods, and complex data analysis. His research is focused on substance use issues and the opioid crisis including community engaged research methods to better understand the contributors and predictors of overdose as well as access to harm reduction and treatment services. He received a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017, a Masters of Science in epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2019, and a Masters of Science in biostatistics and a Doctor of Philosophy in epidemiology from Harvard in 2023. Dr. Cordes's doctoral dissertation focused on applications of instrumental variable methods to spatial analyses for the effect of antidiabetic medications on cardiovascular outcomes. His postdoctoral work has been focused on the Predict to Prevent study (R01DA054267 MPIs: Stopka, Bauer) where he uses large administrative linked datasets to develop multilevel Bayesian spatiotemporal models to predict hotspots of opioid-related overdose across Massachusetts. He is also the principal investigator of a Tufts Initiative on Substance Use and Addiction project entitled "Xylazine in Lowell: Community Engaged Spatial Analysis and Harm Reduction". Dr. Cordes is passionate about teaching epidemiology, biostatistics, pharmacoepidemiology, spatial epidemiology, and multilevel modeling.