Dr. Greg R. Alexander, a MCH/perinatal epidemiologist, received his Master of Public Health degree from the University of South Carolina in 1976 and his Doctor of Science degree from the Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University in 1986. He is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of South Florida with secondary appointments in College of Public Health, Departments of Epidemiology, Global Health and Community and Family Health. He previously held public health faculty positions in maternal and child health departments at the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Hawaii, the University of Minnesota and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Prior to entering academia, Dr. Alexander worked in both county and state public health departments. He is a registered Environmental Sanitarian. At a state department of public health, he served as a MCH epidemiologist for MCH programs and as a director of biostatistics. Dr. Alexander has maintained an active involvement in public health practice through the provision of technical assistance and continuing education to state public health agencies. Since the early 1990s, Dr. Alexander has served as the director of the MCH Leadership Skills Training Institute, which provides advanced leadership education to the personnel of State Title V agencies. His areas of professional service include: leadership training, program evaluation, needs assessment, performance monitoring, and data analysis. During the last decade, he has provided consultation to more than a dozen state health departments and Title V agencies, while advocating for the development of expanded efforts to train MCH epidemiologists.

Dr. Alexander has over 200 published peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and invited technical reports, and has had more than 250 abstracts competitively selected for presentation at professional meetings. He is the co-author of the book, Needs Assessment in Public Health, a practical guide for the conduct of needs assessment and analysis in public health settings. He has received several awards for his research and scholarship, including the 1990 Academic Leadership in MCH Award from the Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health and the 2001 National MCH Epidemiology Award for Advancing Knowledge. He received the University of Alabama at Birmingham President's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1998 and in 2001 was awarded that school = s Distinguished Faculty Investigator Award.

Dr. Alexander’s general research interests include the investigation of the determinants of racial and ethnic disparities in adverse pregnancy outcomes, including low birth weight, preterm birth and infant mortality, and the assessment of measures of prenatal care utilization and newborn maturity. His areas of educational instruction include perinatal and MCH epidemiology, research methodology, applied secondary data analysis techniques, MCH needs and performance assessment, MCH leadership skills and history, and global maternal and child health. He is co-author of a forth-coming graduate-level textbook ( Perinatal Epidemiology) in a number of professional public health organizations, Dr. Alexander is the Editor-in-Chief of the MCH Journal. He is a past President of the National Delta Omega Public Health Honorary Society, past Chair of the MCH Council for the Association of School of Public Health. He has been involved as Chair of the national March of Dimes Perinatal Data Center Advisory Committee and co-Chair of the Alabama March of Dimes Prematurity Campaign. He currently serves as Scientific Advisor to the CDC State Infant Mortality Initiative and is involved with the preparation of a toolkit for States to analyze, interpret and address adverse trends in infant mortality. He continues to serve in several national scientific advisory committees and works with scientists from several countries on investigations related to preterm birth and infant mortality.