About

I have a background in research project coordination, biostatistics, and population health. My applied public health interests include traumatic stress disorders, environmental toxicants, and community-level deprivation.

Interests

Spatial Epidemiology
Health Data Science / Statistics
Data Analysis and Visualization in R

Education

MSPH in Biostatistics, 2018

Syracuse University
BA in Psychology, 2013

State University of New York at Oswego

Posts

Making sense of investing and portfolio performance

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. …

Last updated on May 16, 2020 11 min read

Exploring lead hazards in the City of Syracuse

Elevated blood lead levels in children is endemic in Syracuse, particularly across the city’s poorest neighborhoods and refugee …

Last updated on Jan 18, 2020 4 min read

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Presentations

Behavioral Health Research in Primary Care

Presentation given during Mental Illness Awareness Week 2019.

Oct 10, 2019

Slides

Brief intro to R

A brief workshop to introduce R to new users at work.

Jul 26, 2019

Code Slides

Projects

#tidytuesday

A collection of Tidy Tuesday plots.

healthdatacsv

An R package to interface with the healthdata.gov API to query the catalog and return tidy data frames.

tidyVA

An R package of simple features data of Veterans Health Administration geographies to allow tidy spatial analysis and visualization.

Publications

Race differences in the effect of Subjective Social Status on hostility and depressive symptoms among 9- to 11-year-old Children

We identified race differences in associations between psychosocial functioning and subjective social status (SSS) among school-age …

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Variability in the spatial density of vacant properties contributes to background lead (Pb) exposure in children

Spatial patterns of vacant properties contribute to low-level lead exposure in children.