Laurens Holmes, Jr. Educated at the Catholic University of Rome, Italy, University of the Health Sciences, Antigua, School of Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Medicine, and the University of Texas, Texas Medical Center, School of Public Health, Laurens (Larry) Holmes, Jr., is currently a clinical epidemiologist (Orthopedic Department), Head of the Epidemiology Laboratory at the Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research, and Chief Methodologist at the Nemours/A.I.duPont Children Hospital, Office of Health Equity & Inclusion. He is also an adjunct professor of clinical trials and molecular epidemiology at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark,… DE. He is recognized for his work on epidemiology and control of prostate cancer, but has also published papers on other aspects of hormonally-related malignancies, cardiovascular and chronic disease epidemiology utilizing various statistical methods. Dr. Holmes is a strong proponent of reality in the statistical modeling of cancer and non-experimental research data, where he presents on the rationale for tabular analysis in most non-experimental research data which are often not randomly sampled, and hence meaningless to apply statistical inference to such data. Franklin Opara Dr. Opara completed his undergraduate from Texas Southern University, earned his master degree from George Washington University, then received his medical degree from UTESA- School of Medicine, Dominican Republic, and also obtained his doctorate degree from Walden University, Minnesota. Dr. Opara currently heads the Health Policy Research Division at the American Health Research Institute, and together with Dr. Holmes, he examines the role of race/ethnicity in geo-epidemiologic mapping of diseases. Within other positions, he has served as a Chief Consultant at Priority Women's Health Alliance specialized in clinical issues in women's healthcare. Dr. Opara is best recognized for his contributions in health disparities in cardiovascular and chronic diseases namely hypertension, and also clinical research designs and management in the areas of teen pregnancy, healthcare outcomes and injury prevention. He is a co-author and has published many papers in scientific journal on disparities in health outcomes.