Dr. Britt's curriculum vita

Dave Britt is a sociologist with teaching and research interests in mixed-method analysis, modeling using qualitative and quantitative data and comparative analysis. Substantively, he has been working in the area of high-risk pregnancies for more than a decade, pursuing policy-related questions that have a strong prevention theme.

Educational Background

• PhD Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1969
• MA Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1966
• BA, Washington and Lee

Teaching Areas

• Conceptual modeling
• Comparative Analysis
• Mixed-method research
• Organizational analysis
• Sociology of Prevention

Professional Activities

• Dynamics of coping with multi-fetal reduction
• The impact of a statewide telemedical system on obstetric care
• Matching obstetric risk and clinical expertise

Research Interests

• Community-level health interventions
• School-level health interventions
• Maternal and child health-system care
• Comparative analysis

Honors and Awards

• Chair, ASA Best Dissertation Committee, 2004

Professional Memberships

• American Sociological Association
• American Public Health Association

Selected Publications

• 1997, Britt, D.W.  A Conceptual Introduction to Modeling:  Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).
• 2006, Britt, DW, Norton, J, Hubanks, A, Arias-Navidad, SG, Perkins, RJ and Lowery, C.  A two period assessment of changes in specialist contact in a high risk pregnancy telemedical program. Journal of Telemedicine and e-Health. 12:1-7.
• 2006, Britt DW, Bronstein J and Norton JA.  Absorbing and Transferring Risk:  A logistic regression analysis of a Statewide High-risk-pregnancy Telemedical Program on VLBW maternal transports.  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2006, 6:11 (electronic journal).
• 2006, Britt DW, Eden RD and Evans MI.  Matching risk and resources in high-risk pregnancies. American Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine (in press)
• 2006, Britt, DW.  Using Contextual Elaboration as a Vehicle for Moving From Single Cases to Case Comparison:  Exploring Cultural Change at Ramtech.  Journal of Applied Management Entrepreneurship. (in press)
• 2006, Britt, DW and Evans MI.  Information sharing for MFPR Patients. Fertility and Sterility (in press)
• 2007, Britt, DW and Evans, MI.  “Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Sucks”:  Frame Combinations and MFPR Decision Difficulty.  Social Science and Medicine (in press).
• 2007, Henry, G, Britt, DW and Evans, MI.  Screening advances and diagnostic choice:  The problem of residual risk.  Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine. (in press)