Education
Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health | 2016
Master's in Public Health
Concentration: Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University | 2011
Bachelor of Arts in Public Health Studies
Selected Research Experience
Doctoral Fellow | 2020-Present
Project: Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing
- Co-lead of workstream on Sexual and Reproductive Health.
- Lead, design and conduct a mixed-methods study to understanding how to meaningfully engage with youths in research, practice and programs.
Project: HIV-InDI (Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health)
- Conduct factor analysis to validate a newly developed measure of intersectional discrimination.
- Identify key HIV-related measures for survey development to assess whether intersectional discrimination impacts HIV-related outcomes.
Project: Assessing the durability of a cash transfer on physical partner violence among adolescent girls and young women in Rural South Africa (Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health)
- Use IPW to handle study attrition in order to examine durability of intervention on partner violence.
Project: Testing strategies to communicate evidence about toxic stress to improve the lives of children and families without creating stigma (Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health)
- Use multilevel modeling to examine whether inclusion of state-tailored economic cost of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in dissemination materials increases legislators’ engagement with dissemination materials.
Data Analyst | 2020-2021
Project: JustHouHS (American University)
- Led data analyses to understand how mass incarceration, housing instability and housing policies impact sexual risk.
- Translated research findings on how COVID-19 impacts housing and social networks into a report for community members.
Project Coordinator | 2016-2020
Project: MAMAS (Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health)
- Coordinated implementation activities for an intervention study aim to increase postpartum school re-enrolment among South African adolescent mothers.
- Designed data collection tools and surveys in order to examine program's impact, feasibility and accessibility.
- Led data analyses and co-authored several journal articles.
- Translated findings and developed presentations for community stakeholders and local researchers to inform existing national programs and future research.
Research Assistant | 2015-2016
Projects: SALURBAL and Home Preservation Initiative (Drexel University Urban Health Collaborative)
- Developed a database of city-level measures within Latin American countries from a varied of sources for a $12 million grant proposal, which aimed to examine environmental and health effects in Latin American cities.
- Coordinated a community-based participatory research project to examine the influence of housing repairs in West Philadelphia on health outcomes in order to inform evidence-based housing policies to support systematically excluded communities.
