Overview
Brad Hammill, DrPH, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences within the School of Medicine and a member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Dr. Hammill received his DrPH in Biostatistics from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research is focused on leveraging real-world data—including electronic health record data, health insurance claims data, and registry data—for clinical research.
Areas of expertise: Biostatistics, Real-World Data, Health Services Research, Health Policy, and Epidemiology
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences
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2021 - Present
Population Health Sciences,
Basic Science Departments
Associate Professor in Medicine
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2020 - Present
Medicine, General Internal Medicine,
Medicine
Member in the Duke Clinical Research Institute
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2016 - Present
Duke Clinical Research Institute,
Institutes and Centers
Recent Publications
Revisiting the Area Deprivation Index
Preprint · February 28, 2026 Full text CiteRationale and Design of the Roflumilast or Azithromycin to Prevent COPD Exacerbations Clinical Trial.
Journal Article Chronic Obstr Pulm Dis · January 30, 2026 RATIONALE: Rationale: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of hospitalization and death, particularly among patients with chronic bronchitis and frequent exacerbations. Results of placebo-controlled clinical trials indicate that ... Full text Link to item CiteHigh-dimensional multiple imputation for partially observed confounders including natural language processing-derived auxiliary covariates.
Journal Article Am J Epidemiol · January 8, 2026 Multiple imputation (MI) models can be improved with auxiliary covariates (ACs), but their performance in high-dimensional data remains unclear. We aimed to develop and compare high-dimensional MI (HDMI) methods using structured and natural language proces ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
UrogynCREST Program
ResearchCourse Faculty · Awarded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · 2019 - 2029PDUFA VII: Task 1, Project 1, Signal Detection - Pregnancy registries versus electronic healthcare database studies (MAX Data Incorporation)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. · 2024 - 2027A Life Course Approach to Identify Risks of Hospitalization in Older Adults with Heart Failure
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute on Aging · 2022 - 2027View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ·
2015
DrPH
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ·
1998
M.A.