Courses

I have taken many classes, seminars, and workshops to hone my skills. Below is just a selection:

Independent Study and Professional Development:

  1. Health Geography; The Global Health Network; January 26, 2026

  2. TreeAge Pro Healthcare Modeling and Advanced Healthcare Modeling; TreeAge Software; November 2025

  3. Hands-on Introduction to Git; University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing; November 7, 2025

  4. Corporate and Foundation Funding Search Workshop; University of Utah Corporate and Foundation Relations; October 21, 2025

  5. Cluster Analysis in R; DataCamp; October 2025

  6. Machine Learning with caret in R; DataCamp; October 2025

  7. Counseling on Access to Lethal Means; Zero Suicide Institute; September 2025

  8. Intermediate Regression in R; DataCamp; August 2025

  9. Machine Learning in the tidyverse; DataCamp; June 2025

  10. Unsupervised Learning in R; DataCamp; June 2025

  11. Feature Engineering in R; DataCamp; June 2025

  12. Supervised Learning in R: Regression; DataCamp; May 2025

  13. Supervised Learning in R: Classification; DataCamp; May 2025

  14. Reproducible Mapping Workflows with IPUMS NHGIS and R; National Science Foundation Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (I-GUIDE); May 14, 2025

  15. Computation & Analytic Science & Methods Workshop on shareable code, data quality, community care, and natural language processing; Veterans Health Administration IDEAS Center for Innovation; October 21, 2024 – March 24, 2025

  16. Prediction and Prevention: Mistakes We Need to Stop Making in Suicidology; University of Utah Health; September 12, 2024

  17. Dyadic Data Analysis Workshop; Department of Psychology and Behavior Health Innovation & Dissemination Center; University of Utah; September 1 – November 1, 2024

  18. Introduction to Spatial Data Science with R; University of Utah Department of Population Health Sciences; August 16, 2024

  19. Intensive Longitudinal Methods Workshop; Statistical Horizons; July 30 – August 2, 2024

  20. Suicide Prevention Within Health Care for the LGBTQ+ Community; University of Utah Health; June 6, 2024

  21. Human Subjects Research (Social/Behavioral Certification); CITI Program

  22. Human Subjects Research (Biomedical Certification); CITI Program

  23. SQL: A Practical Introduction for Querying Courses; Johns Hopkins University via Coursera; May 2023

  24. The Data Science of Health Informatics; Johns Hopkins University via Coursera; April 2023

  25. PHS Data Science in R Summer Workshop; University of Utah Department of Population Health Sciences; August 5-9, 2019

University of Utah:

PhD in Population Health Sciences

  1. Biostatistics I & II; PBHLT 6100 & PHS 7000

  2. Epidemiology I, II, & III; MDCRC 6010-6110, PHS 7100

  3. Grant Writing; MDCRC 6450

  4. Health Systems Research; PHS 7300

  5. Implementation Sciences & Dissemination; PHS 7360

  6. Modern Causal Inference; PHS 7030

  7. Qualitative & Mixed Methods; PHS 7350

  8. Secondary Data Insights; PHS 7020

  9. Social Determinants & Health Inequities; PHS 7370

Master of Public Policy

  1. Health Economics; ECON 6190

  2. Microeconomics; ECON 2010

  3. Policy Analysis; PADMN 6323

  4. Program Evaluation; PUBPL 6563

  5. Public Finance; ECON 6300

  6. Public Policy Theory & Application; PADMN 6320

  7. Survey Research; PUBPL 6560

Bachelor of Science in Exercise and Sports Sciences with Minor in Sociology of Health and Medicine

  1. Aging & Exercise; KINES 4670

  2. Diversity & Health; H EDU 5300

  3. Global Health; SOC 4674

  4. Global Population Problems; SOC 3653

  5. Human Anatomy; BIOL 2325

  6. Human Genetics; BIOL 2210

  7. Human Physiology; BIOL 2420

  8. Sociology of Migrants & Communities; SOC 3741

  9. Political Philosophy; PHIL 3700

  10. Research Methods; SOC 3111

  11. Social Epidemiology; SOC 3673