NYU Langone Dept. of Population Health

The Research

This internship was in Dr. Maria Khan's lab in the Department of Population Health, working on a study examining how incarceration functions as a driver of STI/HIV transmission at the population level. The research was ultimately published in a peer-reviewed journal.

My Contributions

• Built interactive documentation for large-scale datasets to make the data more navigable for the research team
• Conducted systematic literature reviews across published epidemiological research
• Co-authored the resulting manuscript (published — see Publications)

[TODO: What were the datasets like — size, source, sensitivity? Was this EHR data, survey data, surveillance data? How did you build the interactive docs — Jupyter notebooks, a web tool, something else?]

What This Experience Shaped

Working in a clinical research environment during undergrad gave me an early and serious view into how data quality, documentation, and reproducibility actually matter — in a domain where errors have real consequences.

[TODO: Anything else about this experience that feels personally significant — first time working with sensitive health data, working with a specific research methodology, anything that connects to your broader interests?]