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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

DARTMOUTH QBS PROFILE

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)

 


QBS PhD Experience

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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