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Oakland, CA, US

Oakland, CA

• Research and develop rapid-response analyses that support local campaigns to extend and strengthen eviction moratorium policies and renter protections in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative research and author, co-author, and contribute writing and research to policy briefs, analyses, and articles, including comparative analyses and equity profiles/research reports.
• Managed five community partnerships to produce community-owned data tools that draw upon the National Equity Atlas database, coordinate community visioning and design sessions, and liaised with the data, design, and.
• Produced two web-based data tools with community partners in Buffalo, NY and Louisiana to capture narrative around health equity and social determinants of health
• Develop creative solutions to communicate complex data and research findings, including through data visualizations (graphs, charts, and maps), presentations, and websites
• Assist in the development of new research and analyses and the selection of new indicators to incorporate into the National Equity Atlas

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Clean and manage datasets from multiple peer support programs using SPSS, Access, and Excel; Datasets include contact notes and survey responses from domestic and international Peers for Progress affiliated programs
• Prepare and extract data for graduate students and staff who are conducting research using program datasets

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Provided research and quantitative support for the Camden Coalition’s engagement of the South Jersey Behavioral Health Innovations Collaborative (SJBHIC), whose stakeholders include the Camden region’s five major.
• Conducted a literature review and environmental scan of existing behavioral health metrics and scorecards that assess quality of acute mental health care and identify measures that are the most salient to the goals of.
• Developed and prototyped a Tableau dashboard template to visualize selected metrics
• Presented metrics review process to the SJBHIC Quarter 3 Steering Committee Meeting, attended by regional health system executives, representatives from behavioral health screening centers, and other stakeholders.

University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Design and develop a pilot web-based neuroimaging data repository that provides search, display, and image manipulation functions as a model for new methods that researchers can use to share and interact with large.
• Research and modify open source web tools and scripts available on GitHub to integrate into the pilot data repository.
• Examine, incorporate, and catalog MRI data from existing public data repositories as sample data for the pilot project.
• Collaborate with project members from UNC Health Sciences Library, Carolina Health Informatics Program, and the Gillings School of Public Health to ensure that the project is appropriate for grant goals.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Wrote R scripts to run analyses on intercept survey data from an assessment of corner store purchases, a collaboration between the Philadelphia Department of Public Health and Temple University. Investigated the.
• Evaluated past Youth Tobacco Sales Prevention Program Annual Reports and identify areas to be updated such as data graphics and narrative to reflect changes since the latest report. Made recommendations on data.
• Created and conducted qualitative evaluations with two business sites for the Tobacco-Free Retailer pilot project, which aims to phase out tobacco sales in corner stores and Chinese take-out restaurants in low-income.
• Performed literature review on tobacco control policies such as compliance checks at point-of-sale, tobacco permit reform, youth sales, and tobacco cessations programs.
• Participated in tobacco cessation related trainings such as a Counter Tools training on the role of retailers in tobacco sales.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Researched and evaluated the quality and usefulness of prospective datasets on topics ranging from health statistics, demographics, socio-economics, employment, and housing from public and third party data providers.
• Prepared datasets for release on the PolicyMap online mapping tool by collecting, cleaning, processing, documenting, and validating data using Microsoft Access, SQL Management Studios, and ArcGIS. The PolicyMap mapping.
• Created blog posts that highlight the features and application of the data available on PolicyMap for subscribers and general public.

Camden, NJ

• Created a public report analyzing crime trends in Camden over the last 25 years using data sources from New Jersey Uniform Crime Reports and U.S. Census. Report looks at various crime measures and how trends relate to.
• Researched and created public data reports on crime, housing, and education in Camden, NJ by identifying appropriate local data sources; cleaning, manipulating, and analyzing datasets; and designing and producing.
• Expand the organization’s outreach and social media presence by curating and publishing daily news digests to an audience of over 1,220 people who work and live in Camden, as well as utilizing social media platforms.
• Provided data assistance to community organizations and partners. Examples of data assistance include creating data visualization tools on Google MyMaps and Adobe Illustrator, and pulling data from the U.S. Census.

• Provided editorial assistance with various Cengage Learning projects; responsibilities include but not limited to audio transcription, data search and entry, uploading content into digital platforms.

Berkeley, CA

• Engaged in hands-on, community-based service learning with the Heart 2 Heart program, a joint collaboration between LifeLong Medical Care and the city of Berkeley to address prevalence of high blood pressure and heart.
• Assisted with the program’s community outreach and education events, such as taking health measures at weekly blood pressure clinics and canvassing target community for blood pressure screenings.
• Planned and implemented an informational table on pedestrian safety at the annual Block Party which provided various health and educational resources directly to the neighborhood. Resources offered included walking.

University Of California, Berkeley

• Recruited subjects through flyers; screened potential participants through phone interviews; and conducted 5-hour sleep cognition experiments which involved connecting participants to EEG equipment, setting up eye.
• Analyzed experimental data (EEG, ECG, and questionnaires) by writing and running MATLAB scripts to investigate heart rate variability as a means to examine the relationship between sleep and anxiety levels in task.
• Performed statistical analysis using R to evaluate results from questionnaires such as the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), Karolinska Sleepiness Scale (KSS), and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI).
• Conducted literature review and synthesized key concepts from technical papers to better understand research goals.
• Translated data and utilized graphs to present research findings at biweekly lab meetings overseen by postdoctoral supervisor.

University Of California, Berkeley

- Organize class structure to foster comfortable setting for classroom discussion - Invite and schedule weekly researcher speakers for a balanced series of class lectures - Submit student course grades based on holistic review of classroom participation, article review, and final presentation

University Of California, Berkeley

• Assist with behavioral experiments with free-ranging squirrels, such as observing their caching strategies and resource allocation as it varies among differently valued nuts.
• Assist with decision making experiments on lab captivated gerbils which involves habituating the gerbils to attend to a reward producing landmark and observe their responses to the movement of the reward-landmark.
• Code video footage of squirrel caching experiments by distinguishing between the different stages of nut caching such as hand manipulation, head shake, false cache, digging, thumping, and covering.
• Assist with running human caching trials that aim to simulate the caching behavior of squirrels and to better understand the similarity of strategies.
• Use GPS trackers to locate waypoints such as squirrel caches and landmarks.

Master Of Public Health (Mph), Health Behavior

Bachelor Of Arts, Cognitive Science

Activities and Societies: Cognitive Science Student Association, Volunteers Around the World, Leadership Award Scholars Association

Neuroscience, History Of Medicine, Architecture

Summer session through Pembroke-King's Programme