Frances Mather, PhD is Associate Dean of Academic Information Systems and Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics in the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.   She has collaborated in childhood respiratory health research, incidence of cancer and survival of cancer patients and analysis of large-scale studies of medical and vital data for over thirty years.   She directed the data coordinating center for the IV antibiotic therapy study in cystic fibrosis (MCH), the evaluation unit of the Great Expectations program (The New Orleans Healthy Start Site), the mapping of prostate cancer incidence rates in Louisiana and analysis of environmental health data with projects involving database management, forms design, programming, data analysis and linkage, mapping and reporting components.   She is currently collaborating on a clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of chloroquine and candidate drugs in malaria, a training grant for Informatics in Mali, development of the PRAMS project in Louisiana and analysis of environmental health tracking data.