Hubert A. Allen, Jr.
Hubert A. Allen, Jr. is the principle of the firm which he started in 1986 in Baltimore, Maryland, just after receiving his Master of Science degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. It was always Hubert’s vision to be an independent consultant. As such he has been able to select activities over the years.
For the first decade Hubert traveled extensively as a public health statistician. His first trip was to Haiti in 1985 where he worked with a community group on Child Survival Health issues. In 1986 he moved to Malawi, Africa, and worked in many government ministries providing technical assistance in computing and statistics, including : The Ministry of Health, The Ministry of Natural Resources; Department of Wildlife and others. Over a dozen Malawians received extensive training as Associates. Virtually all of these Malawians went on to successful careers which involved their computing skills they learned with Hubert Allen and Associates.
Returning to the United States of America in 1989, Mr. Allen quickly got to work providing technical support to many other Child Survival Projects, Family Planning Projects and traveled to Nigeria, Oman, and India. In 1995 Hubert moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico. The need for statisticians out west is significant and growing. His first projects were working with School Health and Diabetes Control with the State of New Mexico. After winning a competitive Request For Proposal, Hubert joined the Immunization Program for a two year contractor stint. During this time he was the first person in the state to use the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Immunization Assessment software, CASA. These contracts ended and Hubert took on another awarded contract, this from Presbyterian Medical Services, headquartered in Santa Fe, and the evaluation of Head Start Programs across northern New Mexico. This segued into some time as a consultant with First Choice Community Healthcare in Albuquerque and surrounding counties. Here Hubert worked with JACO standards, patient satisfaction, improving immunizations, presentations to the Board of Directors.
Another dear and important client deserves special mention: The Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage in Easton, Maryland. The Heritage is manned by two former fellow Johns Hopkins graduate student friends: Robbin Haggie and Ned Gerber. The Heritage works with landowners, governments and within its own holdings to manage land to maximize conservation value. For years we have worked on prospective studies of vegetation if power-line rights-of-ways. As statistician Hubert has been the steady sourse of number-crunched results for over a decade for the Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage.
In 2003 Hubert rejoined the state of New Mexico, Department of Health, Immunization Program as a CASA chart reviewer and ‘diagnostician of clinic immunization status and ways to improve.’ In the three years since joining the program, there has been public health improvement as New Mexico’s national ranking wobbled from the very bottom to closer to the middle. Moving through 2008, 2009 and beyond Hubert is optimistically that more quality clients, intellectual challenges and contributions to public health, conservation, and other endeavors lies just over the hill.
Hubert Allen’s Curriculum Vitae is available.