Associate Professor
UNC Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Dr Jonsson Funk’s research takes place at the intersection of pharmacoepidemiology, methods for estimating valid treatment effects in observational data, and women’s health research.
Her ongoing research studies use data from Medicare, IBM Watson Health Analytics’ Marketscan data, and the Carolina Data Warehouse for Health (CDW-H) – an electronic medical record warehouse that brings together rich clinical and administrative data on over 2 million patients seen across the spectrum of care by providers in the UNC Health Care System. More recently, she has led efforts at UNC to link complementary data (e.g. Medicare claims with the UNC CDW-H).
Her methods research has assessed the performance of propensity scores and doubly robust estimators. In her current R01, she is evaluating alternative methods for identifying treatment effect heterogeneity – specifically sex differences in the safety and effectiveness of cardioprotective medications. She has contributed to research on reducing measurement error in studies using claims data, methods for generalizing treatment effects from clinical trials to real world populations and improving control of confounding by frailty.
In collaboration with clinical colleagues and graduate students in epidemiology, she has addressed a range of important topics related to women’s health including treatment of pelvic floor disorders, effects of medication use during pregnancy, health outcomes after sterilization, and effects of diabetes medications on breast and endometrial cancer risk.
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