Najuma Abdullah Email & Phone Number

New York City Metropolitan Area

- Assist the Principal Investigator in the management of the recruitment pipeline.- Monitor participant status, coordinate day-to-day study activities, support aspects of EEG/ERP and behavioral data collection and management of the research database.- Perform data quality control, assist in data preprocessing and analyses, and assist in manuscript preparation.- Monitor data management and preparation of data summary and presentation.

New York, New York, United States

- Monitoring and determining study eligibility, conducting screening and enrollment appointments.- Conduct remote and in-person study visits; administer several standardized math, language and literacy assessments such as PPVT-4, TOWRE, KeyMath and CTOPP-2.- Complete assessment scoring, double scoring and data entry templates.- Operate EEG equipment with cap application. Observe, measure and record the electrical activity and brain wave patterns.- Monitor participants during EEG, operate E-Prime scripts, upload EEG data.

New York, New York, United States

Project: Intraminority Closeness and Friendships- Co-created and piloted confederate scripts in dyadic study.- Assisted designing, developing, and modifying research procedures, and instruments.- Monitored over 200 video and audio-recordings (e.g., collar microphone, audio recorder, camera).- Managed daily participant log with comments of the 18-25 minutes interaction, n = 220. - Conducted literature review regarding allyship and collective action.Project: Friendship Discussion Park Study - Administered data entry and coding of 200, three-page discussion surveys.- Collaborated with the research team in creating a data coding system.

New York, New York, United States

Project: Personal and Social Judgments fMRI Study- Managed recruitment of more than 150 prospective participants, and determined participants’ eligibility according to research specifications.- Scheduled site visits to canvass an average of 18-20 flyers per site. - Coordinated participant and MRI room schedules, updated scanner calendar and file share out-of-scanner data scripts.- Maintained electronic and hard copy filing system.- Conducted SPSS and R data cleaning for fMRI analyses.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Project: Temporal Order Judgments- Administered replication study of viewing fearful facial expressions and effect on memory of neutral words.- Supervised two undergraduate research assistants who carried out replication study to participants.- Coordinated participant recruitment for 240 participants.- Oversaw data entry and analyses using the SPSS program.Project: Emotional Photographs and Cognitive Tasks- Facilitated 80 participants’ selective attention and attention bias toward negatively valenced stimuli.- Co-created and administered 90-minute, E-prime experiments.- Performed data entry and analyses using Excel and SPSS programs.

New York, New York, United States

Projects: NYC Department of Health - NYC HANES 2013- Streamlined 3000 consent and release forms.- Headed 20 illegible or sans signature forms. Scheduled and performed house-visits to retrieve signature(s).- Corresponded via phone and email with over 75 female participants collecting data of sexual health. Activity and reproduction.Projects: Harlem Health Advocacy Partners Initiative- Determined 131 prospective participants eligibility to participate in health efficacy study. - Conducted 90-minute, in-home interviews with 24 participants.- Co-operated several focus group sessions regarding health disparities among African-American and Latinx residents of the East Harlem neighborhood; 44 participants total. - Audio recorded focus group sessions, subsequently drafted meeting notes. As well as, transcribed speaker and participant discussions.