Technical Skills
Statistical Programming
R / SQL

Applied statistical programming and database analysis for public health research

Git/GitHub

Version control and collaborative code management

Geographic Information Systems
ArcGIS / QGIS / PostGIS

Spatial data management and geographic information systems

Geocomputation in R

Reproducible script-based spatial analysis in R

Modelling & Data Visualisation
Statistical modelling

GLMs, mixed-effects, survival, and Bayesian spatial analysis

R Markdown / ggplot2 / Tableau

Reproducible reporting and data visualisation

Experience

  1. Epidemiologist

    BC Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS
    • Applied epidemiologist at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, conducting research on HIV prevention and the health of people ageing with HIV using linked administrative and clinical data
    • Evaluating geographic variation and equity in PrEP uptake across British Columbia to inform program planning and resource allocation
    • Investigating lung cancer epidemiology in people living with HIV
    • Characterising trajectories of comorbidity clustering in people living with HIV using linked provincial administrative and clinical data
  2. Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    The University of British Columbia
    • Led research focusing on sociocspatial inequalities in road traffic injury
    • Leveraged large-scale administrative data to estimate area-level deprivation gradient
    • Published findings in a peer-reviewed journal Health and Place
  3. Health System Impact Postdoctoral Fellow

    BC Ministry Health and University of British Columbia
    • Led research within the Injury & Clinical Prevention Team (Population and Public Health Division), focusing on descriptive epidemiology of active transportation injury
    • Executed large-scale administrative data processing and statistical analysis in R
    • Built an inventory of provincial injury datasets and modelled intervention impacts to support the Injury Prevention & Health Settings branch
    • Translated findings into actionable briefs for Health and Transportation ministries
    • Published findings in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Transport & Health and Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
  4. Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    Toronto Metropolitan University
    • Led nationwide research on road traffic injury risks using Statistics Canada’s population‑based linked dataset (CanCHEC), encompassing over five million records
    • Engineered data processing workflows and implemented linkage protocols within secure computing environments using R
    • Conducted sophisticated time‑to‑event (survival) analyses to evaluate population‑level transportation injury risks
    • Translated findings into actionable briefs for Health and Transportation ministries
    • Published findings in the high‑impact journal Epidemiology

Education

  1. PhD Health Sciences

    Simon Fraser University

    Dissertation: Evaluating and utilizing crowdsourced data and population surveys in bicycling safety research. Supervised by Meghan Winters, PhD

    Courses included:

    • Epidemiology
    • Environmental Epidemiology
    • Biostatistics
    • Transportation Engineering Impacts via University of British Columbia
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  2. MSc Geography

    University of Victoria

    Thesis: Modelling and Mapping Regional Indoor Radon Risk in British Columbia, Canada. Co-Supervised by Trisalyn Nelson, PhD & by Sarah Henderson, PhD

    Courses included:

    • Data management and visualization
    • Geographical Research Approaches and Designs
    • Advanced Quantitative Methods in Geography
    • Advanced Seminar in Geomatics
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  3. BSc Geography (Geomatics Concentration)

    University of Victoria

    GPA: 4.0/4.0

    Courses included:

    • Advanced Spatial Analysis
    • Directed Studies: Applied Spatial Analysis Research