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. Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    The University of British Columbia
    • Leading innovative research investigating road traffic injury patterns and severity among disadvantaged populations across British Columbia through social environment and equity lens
    • Secured CIHR project funding as key contributor by conceptualizing research framework and developing methodological design
    • Implementing advanced spatial analysis and disease mapping methodologies to identify risk patterns and their associations with neighborhood socioeconomic indicators

  2. 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

  3. 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