Teshawna Badu

New york, NY

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I am currently studying at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. I am an MPH candidate in Epidemiology department with a certificate in Applied Biostatistics and Public Health Data Science.

Education

Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health - May 2022

  • Master of Public Health
    • Department – Epidemiology
    • Certificate – Applied Biostatistics and Public Health Data Science

CUNY Hunter College - May 2018

  • Bachelor of Arts
    • Major – Biochemistry
    • Minor – Anthropology

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Employment and Internships

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York NY

  • Date: September 2021- Present
  • Title: Graduate Teaching Assistant for Quantitative Research Methods
    • Facilitating weekly lab sessions explaining statistical concepts and working through problem-sets with over 20 first-year MPH graduate students; holding weekly office hours to communicate course material and provide students’ additional support.
    • Collaborating with faculty to develop weekly lesson plan and rubric for grading assignments
    • Grading students’ homework and assignment; providing feedback and academic support as needed.

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ICAP at Columbia University, New York NY

  • Date: May 2021- Present
  • Title: Research Assistant, LeCellPHIA team
    • Perform data cleaning, wrangling, and analysis of over 130,000 observations in SAS to monitoring and assure data quality of a longitudinal, high-frequency COVID-19 surveillance system: Lesotho Cellphone Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment (LeCellPHIA) study.
    • Lead design of monitoring tool for supervisors to ensure quality assurance and quality control of the study.
    • Prepare protocol; conduct structured in-depth qualitative interviews with LeCellPHIA interviewers to examine interviewer effects and develop best practices for cellphone surveillance research in low and middle-income countries.

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Correlation One, New York NY

  • Date: April 2021- August 2021
  • Title: Data Science for All (DS4A) Fellow
    • Admitted into a merit-based fellowship in Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence with less than 5% acceptance rate to learn Data Science.
    • Utilized Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, and Seaborn libraries of Python to analyze case studies and create data visualizations.
    • Developed and presented a final group project entitled “Covid-19 Responsibility Index”; analyzed and created a 5-star rating system for 150 schools from the 5 Boroughs in New York City to assess their performance and actions taken to curb the spread of Covid-19.

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Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx NY

  • Date: Nov 2018- March 2020
  • Title:Research Trainee, Department of Family & Social Medicine Awards: NIH Diversity Supplement Awardee (2018) Project # R03HL140265-01 Title: Housing mobility, hypertension, self-management, and health care utilization among Bronx Latinos.
    • Conducted literature review to assess evidence on the role of residential mobility on chronic disease management.
    • Characterized the differences in the housing type and access to social amenities of 300 participants in the Study of Latinos (SOL) cohort living with hypertension using Google Street View. -Analyzed data sets using Excel to determine whether living in a less favorable neighborhood is associated with self-rated health.

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Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx NY

  • Date :June- August 2017
  • Title: Health Career Connection Intern, Department of Family & Social Medicine
    • Identified useful metrics to evaluate the built and social environment to be used in a natural experiment study compiled and used for an R21 under Dr. Earle Chambers.
    • Conducted a literature review to inform grant R01DK121896, an experimental study of diabetes prevention among men of color; examined the factors that influence participation of men of color in clinical trials and research studies.
    • Developed an understanding of research design and methodology by reviewing manuscripts submitted for peer review. -Contributed to writing of research grant proposals; prepared manuscripts for submission based on original research.

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New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Queens NY

  • Date : July 2016-August 2016
  • Title: Health Research Training Program Administrative Intern
    • Conducted literature reviews to determine publication status of Epi Scholars Alumni, summarized results in Microsoft Excel.
    • Researched and recorded contact information on 100 Historically Black Colleges and Universities to support the Health Research Training Program’s diversity initiative.
    • Prepared a historical overview report of the NYDOHMH funded scholarship program for staff; used administrative data to prepare charts and graphs to depict retention rates and overall cost of the program
    • Redesigned survey tool to measure the impact of the agency’s funded scholarship program using Survey Monkey.
    • Presented research findings and suggested next steps to leadership and staff within the Bureau of Public Health Training.

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Skills

Profecient in the following:

  • SAS
  • R Studio
  • Microsoft Office Suites
    • Word
    • PowerPoint
    • Excel
  • SurveyCTO
  • Survey Monkey
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Other Relevant Information

Relative Coursework
  • Columbia CORE
  • SAS Course
  • Epidemiology II & III
  • Data Science
  • Spatial Epidemiology
  • Applied Regression
  • Analysis of Categorical Data

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    Certificates
  • CITI- “Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative”
  • HIPPA- TC0019: “Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act Research Training Course”
  • Mental Health First Aid