Micaela Siraj
Research Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology
2 active projects
v6 - Health Equity IRAD
Scientific Questions Being Studied
We intend to perform an analysis to see the impact on health outcomes and status when socioeconomic status (income, education, employment) is controlled for, but other factors are variable, such as race, ethnicity, etc. Our initial analysis will be testing the hypothesis on different diseases and see if there are patterns among groups with similar SES that result in different health outcomes. The initial goal will be to see if we can reproduce this study (Collin, L. J., Jiang, R., Ward, K. C., Gogineni, K., Subhedar, P. D., Sherman, M. E., ... & McCullough, L. E. (2019). Racial disparities in breast cancer outcomes in the metropolitan Atlanta area: new insights and approaches for health equity. JNCI cancer spectrum, 3(3), pkz053.). We'll also look at other factors available in AoU to see if we can identify any of the drivers of these disparities.
Project Purpose(s)
- Population Health
- Methods Development
Scientific Approaches
We are planning to try different regression methods and possibly other methods such as clustering. We'll use the tools available in Python in the AoU notebooks. We may join other datasets publicly available such as the heat vulnerability index, social vulnerability index, and others from sources such as AHRQ, CDC, and others to see if patterns tied to geospatial attributes also have an impact.
Anticipated Findings
If our results are successful, we will aim to contribute our general methodologies back to the field, and hope to aid the general community in investigating Health Equity and SDOH and what some of the key drivers of health disparities might be.
Demographic Categories of Interest
This study will not center on underrepresented populations.
Data Set Used
Registered TierResearch Team
Owner:
- Micaela Siraj - Research Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Jon Duke - Mid-career Tenured Researcher, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Charity Hilton - Project Personnel, Georgia Institute of Technology
Collaborators:
- Vaibhav Jamadagni - Undergraduate Student, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Sheila Isbell - Mid-career Tenured Researcher, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Elizaveta Latash - Early Career Tenure-track Researcher, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Daniel Wu - Graduate Trainee, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Andrew Stevens - Project Personnel, Georgia Institute of Technology
Duplicate of How to Work with All of Us Physical Measurements Data (v6)
Scientific Questions Being Studied
How to navigate around physical measurements?
Project Purpose(s)
- Population Health
- Social / Behavioral
- Educational
- Drug Development
- Methods Development
- Control Set
- Ancestry
- Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI)
Scientific Approaches
N/A
Anticipated Findings
N/A
Demographic Categories of Interest
- Race / Ethnicity
- Age
- Sex at Birth
- Gender Identity
- Sexual Orientation
- Geography
- Disability Status
- Access to Care
- Education Level
- Income Level
Data Set Used
Registered TierResearch Team
Owner:
- Micaela Siraj - Research Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Jun Qian - Other, All of Us Program Operational Use
- Will Dolbeer - Other, All of Us Program Operational Use
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