Computational health scientist and PhD candidate in health informatics at UNC Chapel Hill.
I’m a computational health scientist interested in how movement, exposure, and place shape health. I work with field surveys, clinical and administrative records, high-throughput digital traces, and satellite-derived exposures. I also care about privacy, reproducible open science, and human rights.
I’m currently a PhD candidate at the Carolina Health Informatics Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, advised by Dr. Emily Pfaff at the NC TraCS Institute. My collaborative and affiliate work spans other labs and centers at UNC, including the Hino Lab, the Carolina Population Center, the Fry Lab, and UNC Health. You can read more about my current research and the methods I apply on the research page.
Before UNC, I was a Research Scientist at CrisisReady, a joint initiative between Harvard University and Direct Relief, after spending several years at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and the Mittal Institute, both at Harvard University. I received an MS from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Global Health and Population department, and undergraduate degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
Characterising exposure to climate extremes, disasters, and humanitarian emergencies, and the differential burden of disease and death it produces across populations.
exposure modelling / geospatial climate & hazard data / rapid assessments / remotely sensed data
Estimating mobility rates from digital trace and address data, and using them to understand how populations move in response to those pressures over time.
administrative data / high-throughput digital traces / household surveys / public health surveillance
Quantifying and comparing the effects of exposures, treatments, policies, and digital health interventions on disease, death, and health service delivery.
claims data / electronic health record data / registries / target trial data
