Master of Public Health (MPH), Epidemiology | Certificate in Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases | Expected May 2020
• Coursework included: Data Science II, Relational Databases and SQL Programming for Research and Data Science, Latent Variable and Structural Equation Modeling, Neurological Epidemiology, Data Science I, Applied Regression I, Applied Data Analysis for Epidemiology, Applications of Epidemiological Research Methods, Design & Conduct of Observational Studies, Health Economics, US Health Systems, Analysis of Categorical Data, Quantitative and Qualitative research methods.
• Activities & Societies: VP of Communications - Healthcare Data Analytics, VP of Events - Queer Health Task Force.
Graduate Research Assistant — February 2020 – Present
• Analyzed socio-genomic data for measurement of lifecourse aging.
Graduate Research Assistant — October 2019 – February 2020
• Geocoded 400+ streets for tobacco retail sites and advertisements in Indonesia using Google Street View.
Research Assistant — October 2019 – December 2019
• Conducted factorial survey data analysis in R for vignette experiments evaluating effect of genetic evidence and psychiatric history on decision making in tort litigation cases among 500 judges for the Department of Law, Ethics and Psychiatry.
Graduate Research Assistant — June 2019–August 2019
• Data cleaning and analysis using predictive modeling and machine learning on NYC birth cohort of 1994-1998 with 201,559 observations and 207 variables in R.
• Assessed joint effects of blood lead and 40 air pollutants on 3rd grade test scores in the birth cohort.
• Developed a causal hypothesis for a retrospective observational study using DAGs in Daggity.
Graduate Research Assistant — December 2018–May 2019
• Data collection, study design and analysis assistant for a NIH (NINR) grant funded project exploring associations between antibiotic use and NH resident self-reported or family reported resident symptoms in SAS.
• Abstraction of EMR data and administration of surveys in REDCap for data collection.
Consultant Dentist — October 2017–August 2018
• Leading dental health check-up camps involving 150+ patients and performing treatments in over 60% patients.
• Introduced tobacco cessation program leading to increase in fidelity levels by 30% in rural Ahmedabad in 6 months.
• Successfully managed patient records and accounts.
Management Intern — January 2017–March 2017
• Data entry and management of patient records and accounts
• Telecommunications, scheduling and managing appointments
Columbia University, Department of Epidemiology — October 2019
• Assessing joint effects of blood lead and air pollution on children’s 3rd grade standardized test scores in New York City birth cohort from 1994 to 1998.
R, SQL, SAS, MPlus, QGIS, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word.
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Spanish.
HIPAA, CITI, BLS