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My dissertation links spatiotemporal climate data with individual-level health data, and uses the linked records to quantify the cumulative burden of climate extremes on population displacement, disease, and death, with mobility as the pathway connecting exposure to health. More broadly, my research interests span three core themes.

domains of research

01 / exposure

Climate & crises

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Characterizing exposure to climate extremes, disasters, and humanitarian emergencies: how intense, how frequent, how prolonged, and who bears it.

data remotely sensed exposures / hazard & disaster records / surveys
methods geospatial analysis / causal inference / statistical learning
02 / pathway

Mobility & displacement

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Estimating rates of mobility and displacement, and how populations shift in response to those pressures over time.

data address & mobility traces / surveys / census & administrative
methods mobility estimation / geospatial analysis / statistical learning / digital health & implementation
03 / outcome

Clinical & population health

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Quantifying the short- and long-term effects on disease and death in individuals and populations, and the comparative effectiveness of the interventions and policies meant to reduce them.

data electronic health records / claims & registries / trial & cohort data
methods phenotyping & terminology / causal inference / randomized trials / statistical learning / digital health & implementation
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Active 2026 Evidently Workflow Study
Clinical InformaticsDigital Health
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Active 2025 – 2027 Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)
Population HealthClimate & Environment
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Active 2024 – Social Determinants for Type 2 Diabetes Outcomes
Clinical InformaticsPopulation Health
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Active 2024 – Sea-Level Rise and Household Out-Migration in North Carolina
Climate & EnvironmentMigration & Displacement
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Active 2024 – Residential Mobility in Electronic Health Records
Clinical InformaticsMigration & Displacement
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Active 2024 – Patient Data Density in EHRs
Clinical Informatics
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Active 2023 – Water Quality and Chronic Disease
Clinical InformaticsClimate & Environment
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Active 2023 – Urban Heat Mapping and Vulnerability in North Carolina

Mapping urban heat exposure across North Carolina and linking thermal patterns to community vulnerability, in support of local heat policy.

Climate & EnvironmentPopulation Health
geospatial analysis field epidemiology
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Active 2023 – Concept Rollups for OMOP Data
Clinical Informatics
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2021–2025 National Clinical Cohort Collaborative (formerly National COVID Cohort Collaborative) (N3C) and NIH RECOVER

Long COVID research in the National Clinical Cohort Collaborative (formerly National COVID Cohort Collaborative) (N3C) and NIH RECOVER, using harmonized multi-site electronic health record (EHR) data. Contributions include machine-learning phenotyping, ICD-10-based characterization, and target trial emulations of antiviral treatment.

Clinical Informatics
statistical learning causal inference
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2020–2025 CrisisReady

A research initiative on data and methods for equitable crisis response; I worked on serosurveillance, including how geographically skewed recruitment biases COVID-19 seroprevalence estimates.

Emergency Response Population Health
field epidemiology geospatial analysis
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2020–2022 COVID-19 Mobility Data Network

A multi-institution network using aggregated, privacy-preserving mobility data to track population movement and inform COVID-19 response planning.

Emergency Response Migration & Displacement
geospatial analysis
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2020–2021 Migration Flows and Technology (IOM)

An analysis of the International Organization for Migration's Flow Monitoring Survey data on migration across West and Central Africa, and the role of digital technology in transnational migration.

Emergency Response Migration & Displacement
geospatial analysis
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2020–2021 India Digital Health Network

A Harvard research-and-policy collaborative on interoperable digital health systems for India; I worked on human-centered design for mHealth tools and on digital-health regulatory frameworks.

Digital Health Population Health
policy & implementation
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2020–2021 COVID-19 Response in India (Swasth Community Science Alliance)

Analysis of national COVID-19 test-result data across India, conducted with the Swasth Community Science Alliance to inform how testing capacity was allocated during the pandemic.

Emergency Response Population Health
field epidemiology
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2019–2020 The Kerala Flood Impact Ascertainment Study

A field assessment of the health and displacement consequences of the 2018 Kerala floods, conducted with the Government of Kerala and the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute.

Emergency Response Migration & Displacement
field epidemiology geospatial analysis
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2018–2019 Distress Migration: The Rohingya

A rapid-assessment household survey of Rohingya refugees and host families in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, documenting health and displacement needs.

Emergency Response Migration & Displacement
field epidemiology
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2017–2018 Syria: Health in Conflict

Documenting the effects of the Syrian conflict on population morbidity and mortality, as part of the Lancet Commission on Syria.

Emergency Response
field epidemiology
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2012–2015 Global Oral Health and Nutrition

Community-based studies of child oral health and undernutrition in El Salvador, India, and Nepal, linking infant feeding and dietary practices to severe tooth decay and malnutrition in young children.

Population Health
field epidemiology
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