Roger ColeAfter Roger Cole graduated from Brown University in 1962, he began his career with the U.S. Public Health Service. His primary responsibility was to forecast health care demand twenty to thirty years ahead to support the building of new health profesions schools to meet future requirements. He also created and developed the Area Resource File [ARF], a database of about 6,000 variables for every county in the U.S., to support the designation of health professions shortage areas. The ARF is now used and supported by over a dozen agencies and departments.