Patricia MacCubbin

Patricia MacCubbin joined The City University of New York and the Research Foundation in 2004 as the Director of the Office of Research Conduct. She comes to CUNY with many years of human research subjects protection experience as well as public health research experience.

She has over 10 years of experience in human subjects protections, having served in a variety of Institutional Review Board (IRB) capacities. She served as the Director of the IRBs at the New York State Department of Health in Albany and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. She was also a community member and, later, a consultant for the Utah Department of Human Services IRB. She is currently a community member for the Weill Medical College of Cornell University IRB and a consultant to the Early Detection Foundation.

She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. In that capacity she assembled a special issue focused on human subjects protection issues in public health. She has also published a chapter on human subjects protection issues in public health for a public health administration textbook.

Prior to working in the IRB world, she was an epidemiologist/biostatistician and the Assistant Director of Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Surveillance at the New York State Department of Health. She has a Master's Degree in Applied Statistics and has supplemented that with additional graduate courses in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Public Health Law.

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