PhD candidate, health informatics / UNC Chapel Hill
UbheeshakeBhateeya
Stress on hee and Bha. Most people call me Abhi, which rhymes with “hubby”.
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.
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.
I also care about privacy, reproducible open science, and human rights.
Characterising exposure to climate extremes, disasters, and humanitarian emergencies, and the differential burden of disease and death it produces across populations.
Estimating mobility rates from digital trace and address data, and using them to understand how populations move in response to those pressures over time.
Quantifying and comparing the effects of exposures, treatments, policies, and digital health interventions on disease, death, and health service delivery.