Clyde McCoy, PhD

Dr. McCoy received two BAs, his MA, and his Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio.  He also completed four courses in Advanced Epidemiology from the New England Epidemiologic Institute in Amherst, Massachusetts. He joined the faculty at the University of Cincinatti where he was an instructor in the Department of Sociology. He later moved to become an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Kentucky. He moved to Miami in 1974 where he acted as the Director of Evaluation at the Dade County Department of Human Resources and the Director of Health Services Research at the University of Miami, where he presently works. In this time, he served as a Seminar Associate at Columbia University, President of the Computer College of Technology. He has held several roles at the University of Miami including Associate Professor at the UM Departments of Psychiatry, Professor in the Department of Oncology with joint appointments in Psychiatry, Sociology, and Epidemiology and Public Health. He has been the Associate Director of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Division Director of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health.

He now holds the position of Professor and Chair of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Miami and concurrently is an adjunct faculty and consortium associate at the Population Center at Florida State University. He is currently a Sylvester Scholar at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami School of Medicine as well as the Program Director. At the University of Miami School of medicine, he acts as Director of the Comprehensive Drug Research Center (one of six Centers of Excellence), Director of Drug Abuse and AIDS Research Center (NIH funded P30 Center), the Director of Health Services Research, and Director of the Executive Office of Research Leadership. Dr. McCoy currently serves as the Faculty Athletic Representative at the University of Miami.

Dr. MyCoy’s research interests include a broad span of epidemiology, substance abuse, cancer, early detection of breast cancer, HIV-AIDS, community studies, health planning, and health services. He has been published in several journals on theses topics.