Arin A Balalian, Drph Md Mph Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Serving Texas A&M Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition Evidence Center as Systematic Reviewer

New York, New York, US

• Designing, developing and running reports off both the NYEIS and EI HUB data systems
• Participateing in the conceptualization and design of the project evaluation study including the selection of comparison groups, the data collection mechanisms, the analytic plan, and final products.
• Executing all administrative and technical aspects of the evaluation study
• Collaborating with the Project Manager and Site Liaison in the development of the project report, taking the lead on the data and evaluation sections.

New York, New York, US

• Conducted data cleaning for this 700 records and presented findings in a brief, weekly report to research team
• Conducted basic descriptive analysis of the “Early Determinants of Mammographic Density (EDMD)” with 700 participants using SAS software.
• Created summary tables, reports, figures and manuscripts for publication and presentation to professional organizations
• Conducted data cleaning and basic descriptive analysis of three cohort studies: Sibling/Hermanos study (S/H), Thyroid Disruption and Infant Development (TDID), and Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health.
• Collaborated with lead authors to conduct advanced analysis of 322 participants of CCCEH to assess the effects of prenatal exposure to a mixture of phthalate plasticizers on motor development and behavior of children.
• Preformed basic and advanced analysis of the data available on 120 participants of S/H and 149 participants of TDID cohort for the association between exposure to pesticides and size at birth using R software.

New York, New York, US

• Relevant courses: Perinatal Epidemiology, Clinical Epidemiology, Microbiome and Health, Research Methods in Global and Population Health, Life course Epidemiology, Intro to Epidemiology, Field methods in Epidemiology.
• Prepared interactive session plans for four courses
• Managed and kept the course online platforms up to date
• Restructured two courses of over 20 students to be taught online including synchronous and non-synchronous learning methods during COVID-19 pandemic and transition to online teaching
• Graded final projects and homework submitted as parts of requirements of courses
• Organized weekly office hours and sessions for students to clarify concepts and learning materials

New York, New York, US

• Conducted remote basic descriptive analysis of the “Longitudinal Study of Early Development” with over 180,000 participants with senior research scientist using R software.
• Conducted remote data cleaning for this 180,000 records and presented findings in a brief, weekly report to research team.
• Designed a multiple imputation strategy to handle missing values on blood lead concentration on more than 43,000 participants.
• Conducted causal mediation analysis to estimate if the association between exposure to selected air pollutants and standardized test scores are mediated by preterm birth in the Longitudinal Study of Early Development.
• Conducted secondary analysis of Marbles cohort data, publicly available using Human Health Exposure Analysis Resource (HHEAR) Data Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to compare two advanced methods.
• Created summary tables, reports, figures and two manuscripts for publication and presentation to professional organizations.

New York, New York, US

• Conducted data cleaning for this 700 records and presented findings in a brief, weekly report to research team
• Conducted basic descriptive analysis of the “Early Determinants of Mammographic Density (EDMD)” with 700 participants using SAS software.
• Created summary tables, reports, figures and manuscripts for publication and presentation to professional organizations

New York, NY, US

• Collaborated with 12 research scientists from United States and Denmark on analysis of a matched case-control study of air pollution database from Denmark in relation to the risk and survival after diagnosis of.
• Performed descriptive and exploratory basic analysis of 3900 cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and more than 19,000 matched controls with R using conditional and unconditional logistic regression functions.
• Collaborated with lead authors to conduct advanced analysis of more than 24000 participants of the study to assess critical windows of exposure dating back to 10 years pre-diagnosis using distributed Lag models and.
• Collaborated with lead authors to prepare two abstracts that were presented in International Society for Environmental Epidemiology annual conference in 2021.

Hellerup, Capital Region, DK

• Mission East Armenia headquartered in Denmark was the principal recipient of Global fund grant to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Armenia.
• Strengthened and restructured overall Monitoring and Evaluation system periodic review including defining new indicators and managed the data flow.
• Reviewed and maintained the Monitoring and Evaluation system database, ensuring accuracy and validity of data.
• Performed scheduled and ad hoc Monitoring visits to in country 40+ project sites.
• Provided technical support for data verification and guidance including development of tools for the M&E system.
• Provided periodic reports for project coordinators and local/international partners.

New York, New York, US

• Planned and managed healthcare programs in Armenia including restless regions such as borders of Armenia with Azerbaijan.
• Designed a multidisciplinary community-based program involving seven rural communities to fight malnutrition among children under supervision of healthcare programs director and with collaboration of international.
• Designed an overall Monitoring and Evaluation system and defined new indicators and data collection system for two principal healthcare programs of FAR (Continuing medical education for physicians and Improving.
• Restructured and strengthened ongoing programs based on periodic evaluation findings
• Designed, conducted, and analyzed quantitative & qualitative studies/surveys/screening programs including the first baseline study to assess the growth indicators and food intake of more than 900 infants, toddlers, and.
• Organized biannual professional conferences with participation of small (<20) or large (50-100) groups of local healthcare providers and international experts.

Yerevan, Yerevan, AM

• Conducted interviews with key health officials and key national/international stakeholders along with an international consultant.
• Prepared a road map for national health strategy development along with international consultant.
• Performed targeted literature reviews on legislations, and national strategies and public health organizations.
• In coordination with the international consultant prepared a report to recommend a national health strategy for Armenia.

Drph, Epidemiology

Master'S Of Public Heath, Public Health

Md, Physician, General Medicine