I am a fourth year PhD student in the department of Biostatistics. Generally, my research interests are statistical demography and epidemiology, and survival analysis.

My dissertation projects are related to the estimation of child mortality rates using available survey and vital registration data. This work is advised by Dr. Jon Wakefield. For my first project I used Demographic and Health Survey data and simulated household survey data to compare temporal smoothing and forecasting models with an application to neonatal mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa. For my second project, I am developing a survival analysis framework for estimating child mortality rates at the national level using the multiple data types typically available. This project is in collaboration with partners in the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation.

I am also studying survival- and non-survival-based methods for recurrent events trials, in a project with Dr. Tom Fleming.