Dr. Howard Andrews established and serves as director of the Data Coordinating Center, which in collaboration with the Biostatistics Department, provides comprehensive data management, statistical and data analytic services to the Center for Child Environmental Health, the Traumatic Brain Injury Data Coordinating Center, the Gertrude Sergievsky Center, the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, and over 30 federally funded research projects at the Mailman School, as well as other Columbia departments and affiliates. These projects include 10 clinical trials as well as a number of large-scale epidemiological studies. Dr. Andrews is an expert in the use of web-based technologies to gather, organize, and disseminate research information, and was leader of the technical team that developed Peristats, an on-line system user-friendly information system for accessing, charting, and mapping thousands of data elements related to birth and infants morbidity and mortality at the local, state and national levels.