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HOMETOWN
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
LANGUAGES
English
THESIS MENTOR
Jeremiah Brown
GRADUATE INSTITUTION
Tulane University
Master of Public Health in Epidemiology
UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTION
St. Mary's College of Maryland
Bachelor of Science in Anthropology & Economics
PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE
Louisiana Public Health Institute
Senior Data Scientist & Analytics Lead
LearnToLive
Director of Data & Technology
Louisiana Tobacco Control Program
Tobacco Epidemiologist
THESIS TITLE
We are what we buy? Can consumer expenditures help predict multi-morbidity and resource intensive healthcare utilization?
CAREER TRACK(S)
Industry
AWARDS & TRAINING GRANTS
T32 Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Training Grant
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
HTML, SAS, SQL, STATA, R, SPSS
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Founder of Epidemiology Students Club (EpiC)
Electives
Health Informatics, Biostatistics Consulting
Publications
PubMed
Poster Presentations
- Assessing the food, tobacco, and alcohol point of sale in New Orleans: Findings from mixed methods study (American Public Health Association Conference, 2013, Boston, MA, USA)
- Tobacco Normalization and susceptibility to smoking among youth in Louisiana (American Public Health Association Conference, 2013, Boston, MA, USA)
- Taxation, regulation and smoking cessation (Academy of Business Research Conference, 2013, New Orleans, MA, USA)
- Youth Smoking Habits and Increasing Cardiovascular Risk in Louisiana (American Heart Association EPINPAM, 2013, New Orleans, MA, USA)
Oral Presentations
- Primary Care Needs Assessment from Three Villages in North Sulawesi: Recommendations for Future Interventions (141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition, 2013, Boston, USA)
- How Data Ruined my Life (Academy Health Research Conference, 2017, New Orleans, USA)
My Interests
"Improving prognostic prediction model capabilities via novel computational or analytical methods, including integration and re-purposing of non-health data"
Researcher I admire
Atul Gawande
My Favorite Research Paper:
The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014. URL: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2513561?guestAccessKey=4023ce75-d0fb-44de-bb6c-8a10a30a6173
Why QBS?
My favorite QBS classes:
QBS 122 Biostatistics III
QBS 108 Applied Machine Learning
Life @ Dartmouth
WHEN I AM NOT IN LAB
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