Dr. Muñoz continues to provide leadership in the design of new studies, data analysis, and methodological research in collaboration with faculty and staff of the Department of Epidemiology. Experience and methods derived from research initiatives are part of a course taught by Dr. Muñoz and collaborators: Advanced Methods for the Design and Analysis of Cohort Studies.
The study pioneered the implemenntation of direct measures of Glomerular Filtration Rate in large epidemiological studies. As of 2018, Dr. Muñoz and Dr. Ng became the muli-PIs fo the data coordinating center of CKiD. Dr. Muñoz and collaborators have implemented methods for the analysis of competing risks and parametric survival analysis using the CKiD data as well as proposing coefficients of determination in the context of longitudinal data.
Since 1994, Dr. Muñoz has collaborted with faculty in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences. As part of this collaboration, Dr. Muñoz and collaborators have coordinated several clinical trials and case-control studies conducted in China on putative chemopreventive agents against liver cancer and the effects of air pollution.
Since 2006, Dr. Muñoz has directed the data analytical team of a cohort study on the epidemiology of pelvic floor disorders in collaboration with faculty of the OB/GYN division at the Bayview Medical Center.