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.
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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.
Mobility & displacement
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Estimating rates of mobility and displacement, and how populations shift in response to those pressures over time.
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.
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Active 2026 Evidently Workflow Study
Active 2025 – 2027 Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)
Active 2024 – Social Determinants for Type 2 Diabetes Outcomes
Active 2024 – Sea-Level Rise and Household Out-Migration in North Carolina
Active 2024 – Residential Mobility in Electronic Health Records
Active 2024 – Patient Data Density in EHRs
Active 2023 – Water Quality and Chronic Disease
Active 2023 – Urban Heat Mapping and Vulnerability in North Carolina
Active 2023 – Concept Rollups for OMOP Data
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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