Bert B. Little is a Professor of Health Management and Systems Sciences at the School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville, and has an extensive educational background in analytics (mathematics, statistics, databases, and probability theory) and population health (human biology, genetics, medicine, public health). He was in the Accelerated Degree Program funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for his B.A., and was a doctoral fellow at the University of Texas-Austin. His dissertation research was supported by NSF and he was an NIH Junior Investigator Awardee in 1985. He has worked with databases since 1978 and has built several unique national data warehouses for research. He is active at the VA Medical Center-Dallas as a Senior Research Scientist in Medical Service and is currently assigned to the Medical Service, Division of Cardiology. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Royal Anthropological Institute (FRAI), and the Royal Society of Medicine (FRSM).