Andrew Owen

Andrew Owen is a research assistant professor of general internal medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

A sociologist by training, Owen studies the social determinants of health, health policy, and health disparities, with a particular focus on diabetes and cardiovascular health. His research uses biostatistics, causal inference, and other quantitative methods to analyze observational data and examine how social and policy factors affect health outcomes.

Before joining the Feinberg faculty, Owen was a senior research analyst at Northwestern’s Institute for Public Health and Medicine and the Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research. There, he managed large-scale health-data projects and worked with clinical researchers, data scientists, health-care organizations, and other stakeholders to study diabetes prevention and treatment and translate research findings into clinical and policy applications.

He previously worked as an economic analyst at the University of Kentucky and as a research associate at DePaul University. He also previously served as a Fulbright English teaching assistant in Argentina.

Owen earned a Ph.D. in sociology and a master’s in statistics from Northwestern University, a master’s in sociology from the University of California, Riverside, and a bachelor’s in international relations from Transylvania University.