Research Associate Professor,
Program Director, MCHERDC
Department of Pediatrics
University of Florida
PO Box 100296
Gainesville, FL 32610-0296
jeffroth@ufl.edu

Ph.D., Social Foundations of Education, University of Florida
Curriculum Vitae
Roth Homepage
Expertise: early childhood education, educational disabilities

Biography

Jeffrey Roth is Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the College of Medicine, University of Florida. He is Program Director of the Maternal Child Health and Education Research and Data Center (MCHERDC), a multidisciplinary group of faculty and staff that conduct risk assessment, outcomes research, program evaluation, fiscal impact studies, and cost-benefit analyses for state, regional, and national organizations. He is part of the CALDER Florida team.

Dr. Roth currently supervises statewide data collection and reporting systems for Children's Medical Services, Florida Departments of Health (Regional Perinatal Intensive Care Centers Program and Early Steps) and the Bureau of Community Environmental Health (Florida Birth Defects Registry). He is principal investigator of a program evaluation assessing the impact of Florida’s Medicaid Family Planning Waiver. He received a Ph.D. in Social Foundations of Education from the University of Florida.