The Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health (CARTEEH) is seeking a talented and enthusiastic graduate research assistant (Masters or Doctoral level student) from Spring 2018 to Spring 2019
Students must be on track to graduate no sooner than May 2019
Project Background and Description
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the air passages and is cited as the most common chronic disease of childhood. Emerging evidence showed statistically significant exposure-response relationships between traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) and the onset of asthma in children from birth to 18 years of age. The public health relevance of these positive exposure-response relationships is largely unknown. In this project, we scale up previous efforts and estimate the burden of childhood asthma attributable to TRAP at the United States national level, in a stepwise exercise starting at the regional level.
Essential Duties
The research assistant is expected to:
- Contribute to the research and analysis plan. The research is expected to contribute to the research assistant’s thesis/dissertation
- Identify and extract or estimate childhood asthma incidence rates at fine geographical scale
- Catalog and analyze air pollution exposure estimates at fine geographical scale (census blocks)
- Catalog and analyze population demographic data at fine geographical scale (census blocks)
- Match data sets and compile in one US-wide data set, for which produce meta-data
- Undertake burden of disease assessment on subset of data (regional scale)
- Document and report/present the results
Skills and Qualifications
- Major in public health, environmental health, biostatistics, epidemiology or related field
- Experience in statistical analysis and big numerical data handling and analysis
- Software proficiency (R, Stata, SAS, or equivalent)
- Experience in spatial data analysis and mapping
- Experience or interest in health impact assessment or burden of disease assessment
Please send cover letter and curriculum vitae to Haneen Khreis at [email protected]
