Jamison Fargo, Ph.D.

Field: Psychology
Areas of Focus: Biostatistics, Military Veterans, Psychometrics, Quantitative and Social Epidemiology, Sociobehavioral Epidemiology

Expertise

• Homelessness
• Military Veteran Issues
• Community Dynamics
• Intentional Communities
• Alternative Housing Models
• Epidemiology
• Statistics/Biostatistics
• Psychometrics

Bio

Dr. Jamison Fargo is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, where he is affiliated with the graduate emphasis in Sociobehavioral Epidemiology. His primary research interests focus on preventing and ending homelessness, particularly among US Veterans. He also has interests in community-based interventions, as well as the benefits, and impact of mental, physical, and effects of community. His research is driven by the premise that prevention is the optimum solution to many behavioral and social problems, and thus is focused on ascertaining and defining their characteristics and etiology. Dr. Fargo also has extensive methodological expertise in biostatistics, quantitative and social epidemiology, and psychometrics. He routinely teaches graduate-level quantitative methodology courses.

Dr. Fargo earned master's degrees in clinical psychology and quantitative epidemiology, as well as a doctorate degree in experimental psychology from the University of Cincinnati. He has served as a research scientist with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, working with the National Center on Homelessness among Veterans as well as the Salt Lake City, Philadelphia, and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. He previously worked at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Senior Research Investigator in the Center for Health Equity Research, a Biostatistician in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and an Associate Fellow in the Center for Public Health Initiatives. He has served as the Associate Dean for Research, Executive Associate Dean, and Interim Dean for the College of Education & Human Services at USU. In 2005, he founded the Office of Methodological and Data Sciences at Utah State University (now known at the Statistical Consulting Studio), which he directed until 2009.