Field first
Designs around the people being surveyed, not around the cleanest dataset.
Profile
Three years on a county vaccination-equity study, and the field work to go with the statistics.
By the numbers
3.9
GPABSc Biology2
PublicationsSecond author3
Years of researchCounty health department320
Field interviewsConducted in personHow I work
Statistics I can defend
Runs the analysis in R and can walk any reviewer through every assumption.
Writes for the decision
Turns the finding into something a public health officer can act on this week.
Study enrolment, by quarter
112Q3 2024164Q4 2024221Q1 2025268Q2 2025320Q3 2025
Research path
- 2024 to now
Research assistant
Cascade County Public Health
Vaccination-equity study across twelve underserved neighbourhoods.
Proof · 3 photos · 1 PDF - 2023 to 2024
Undergraduate researcher
Puget Sound University
Senior thesis on access barriers in rural clinics.
Proof · 1 photo - 2022 to 2023
Volunteer coordinator
Northgate Community Clinics
Scheduled outreach for mobile vaccination units.
Projects & Proof
Conference poster: vaccination equity in 12 neighbourhoods
Senior thesis presentation
Regression output in R
Research interests
Why vaccination rates stay low in neighbourhoods that have the clinics, and what outreach changes that. The county study showed that trust in the messenger mattered more than distance to the clinic.
In the MPH I want the methods to test that properly: survey design, causal inference, and the field work to keep the data honest.
Methods and tools
R Study design Survey methodology Biostatistics GIS mapping Community outreach
Programmes and labs
Cascade County Public Health Puget Sound Epidemiology Lab Northgate Community Clinics
What people say
Hana designed the outreach arm of the study, and it is the reason our response rate held up in the hardest neighbourhoods.
She writes up a finding the way a policy team actually needs to read it. That is rare at this stage.
Read the application
Transcript, writing sample and research summary in one link.