Trends in Mental Health Comorbidities Among Substance-Related Visit to Children’s Hospitals, 2016-2021

In ongoing sponsorship from primary care pediatrician Alexis Ball, MD, MPP and principal data scientist Dwight Barry, PhD my team of fellow graduates are working to describe recent trends in pediatric health.

Alongside Lingfei “Ellen” Jiang, Shizhao “Joshua” Yang, and Ruyue “Jasmine” Wang, I co-authored a Statistical Analysis Plan of advanced statistical techniques for clustered longitudinal data (e.g., generalized estimating equations) and conducted comparative analysis between patient demographics. An outstanding achievement was my facilitating team discussion and decision-making, and spearheading scientific approaches and project planning.

Project will be completed March 2025.