Public Health Data Analyst

Reyhaneh Akbar Nejad Yazdi

Cell: 650-***-**** • e-mail:********@*****.*** or *****@******.***

HIGHLIGHTS

3+ years of part-time experience with Data Management, Survey Creation (Qualtrics), Quantitative Statistical Analyses using SAS, SPSS and Excel.

Knowledgeable in R and SQL.

Institutional Review Board Analyst

Knowledgeable of Public Health Biostatistical Analysis, Epidemiology, Logistic Regression, Modeling, Data Mining, Bayesian Methods and Experimental Designs

WORK EXPERIENCE

Data Analyst -Full time March 2021– present

Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel University, PA

Cleaned and organized raw data, analyzed and interpreted data using SAS software in different projects focused on health impact on public health, socio-economic, vulnerability and inequity, in urban health and the whole US.

Working collaboratively with GIS team member

Create and clean Census dataset (American Community Survey-5 year) for different years (tract, group, county and zipcode level)

Statistician Consultant -Part time Feb 2021– present

Children Dental Management, Philadelphia, PA

Designed and presented biostatistics course for the Temple University’s dental residents

Assist Dental residents in their projects in terms of IRB applications and data analysis for their final project.

Quantitative Research Analyst May 2020 – Dec 2020

Office of Research and Sponsored Program, West Chester University, PA

Cleaned and organized raw data, analyzed and interpreted data in a multi-national research project that focused on cancer's impact on public health; socio-economic costs, and burden of cancer in Sub-Sahara Africa. This research was a collaborative work of WCUPA with Harvard University Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and multiple African countries

Presented the results to the Principal Investigator and collaborators using graphs, plots, and tables.

Graduate Assistant Sep 2018 – Dec 2020

Office of Research and Sponsored Program, West Chester University, PA

Assisted the Vice-Provost in generating a Qualtrics-based online survey to collect institutional data

Analyzed the collected data using SPSS, and visualized the results by using Excel, Grapher, and Tabula

Managed call-for-abstracts, abstracts-revision process, and abstracts book generation, and assisted in all activities of the biannual research day at the university.

Participated in regular staff and Institutional Review Board (IRB) monthly meetings.

Level II Licensed Statistics and Calculus Tutor Aug 2017 – Sep 2018

Learning Assistance Resource Center, West Chester University, PA

Tutored incoming, first, and second year college students in “Introduction to Statistics” and “Calculus”.

Monitored students’ progress and prepared weekly reports on students’ academic progress for the mentors.

EDUCATION

M.S. Applied Statistics Dec. 2020

West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, PA

oPublic Health Biostatistics

oEpidemiology

oStatistical Computation

oPrinciples of Experimental Analysis

oMathematical Statistics

oCategorical Data Analysis

oExperimental Design

oIntroduction of Linear Model

oApplied Bayesian Methods

oData mining

B.Sc. Mathematics Education Jan 2009

Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Trainings and Professional Licenses

Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Program Course (IRB Administrative; Social and Behavioral Research modules). Jul 2019

Inclusive Leadership Training (West Chester University) Feb 2020

Presentations and Publication

Golmohamadi, A. Yazdi, R.A.N.., Kita, K. Teff Could Contribute to the Sustainable Goals of the United Nations in Low-Income Areas of Middle East and North Africa (MENA). 2020. Open Science Journal. In press.

Yazdi, R.A.N and Stone, R. Data Analysis of a National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to identify the relationship between obesity and cancer- an abstract. April 2020. Submitted and presented at the West Chester University of Pennsylvania virtual Research Day.

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