Location

Houston, Texas

Occupation

• Clinical Research Supervisor at Baylor College of Medicine
• PhD Candidate in Epidemiology at UTHealth School of Public Health

My PhD project

My dissertation/research is on acute febrile illnesses in Central America, with a concentration on Belize. I was part of a large surveillance study in Belize looking at causes of acute febrile illness in the country and we studied 50+ infectious diseases that we tested for among patients enrolled throughout the country. I am using this data for my dissertation and searching for the coordinates of individuals who were enrolled in our study who provided addresses for us in Belize.

My interests

• Infectious diseases
• Central America (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama)
• Epidemiology
• Public Health
• Geospatial mapping
• Disease surveillance