Abhishek Bhatia
[About]
I’m a computational health scientist studying how movement, exposure, and place shape health. I’m drawn to a range of data, from field surveys, to health records and administrative data, to high-throughput digital traces and satellite-derived exposures. I also have a secondary interest in privacy, reproducible open science, and human rights.
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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.
My work is a mix of clinical informatics and epidemiology. I study people and the places they move through, and how that affects their risk of disease and death, whether the exposure and displacement is acute, as in crisis settings, or chronic, like climate-driven migration. Methodologically, I apply causal inference and statistical learning to observational data and trials.
[Around]
At the Intersection of Health and Place: Integrating Electronic Health Records with Geospatial Data for Research, Practice, and Policy.
Patient Addresses in Electronic Health Records: New Source of Data on Spatial Mobility?
[Contact]
Email: abhatia@unc.edu
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