Some of the participants of the workshop are listed below:
Andrew Pulsipher (pronouns: he/him)
University of Utah
Andrew Redd University of Utah
Statistician, Assistant Professor, R Programmer.
Aníbal Olivera Morales (pronouns: He/Him)
Universidad del Desarrollo
Physicist, Universidad de Concepción. PhD student, Complexity Social Sciences, Universidad del Desarrollo.
Brian Bollen (pronouns: He/Him)
University of Utah (VDL Lab)
Senior Software Engineer in the VDL Lab of the SCI Institute at the University of Utah. I focus mainly on web applications for complex data visualization.
Damon Toth (pronouns: He, him, his)
University of Utah
Applied mathematician and Research Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Utah
Dan Ruley (pronouns: He/Him)
DHHS Population Health Informatics Program
I have a background in software development and analytics/database work. About a year ago I began working for the Informatics program doing analytics and data visualization. I work on maintaining our internal R Shiny platform and am currently overseeing our migration of this system to AWS.
Daniel Opoku Agyemang (pronouns: He/Him/His)
Salt Lake County
Daniel is passionate about turning data into actionable insights to drive change and improve population health outcomes. Proficient in R and other statistical programs for data manipulation and visualization for effective communication. He loves to spend time with his family kayaking and paddleboarding when not coding in R.
Delaney Thornton (pronouns: she/her)
University of Utah
Delaney is a research project manager at the U’s Division of Epidemiology supporting the CFA ForeSITE program.
Emanuel Vasquez Gomez (pronouns: He/His/Him)
Department of Health and Human Services
I’m a Senior Health Informaticist at the Division of Population Health Informatics program and have the main responsibility of overseeing the R Shiny AVR platform. My team works primarily on R shiny application development and data automations.
George G Vega Yon (pronouns: He/Him/Él)
University of Utah
I am an Assistant Professor of Research at the Division of Epidemiology at the University of Utah. I work on studying Complex Systems using Statistical Computing. I have over ten years of experience developing scientific software focusing on high-performance computing, data visualization, and social network analysis. My training is in Public Policy (M.A. UAI, 2011), Economics (M.Sc. Caltech, 2015), and Biostatistics (Ph.D. USC, 2020).
Janelle Delgadillo (pronouns: she/they)
Utah DHHS
Joshua Kelley (pronouns: He/Him/His)
UDHHS
Kerry Regan (pronouns: She/Her)
Utah Department of Health and Human Services
I work as the wastewater surveillance epidemiologist at the Utah Department of Health and Human Services. I have been in this role for a little over a year and a half. Prior to that, I worked in the Informatics Program as a data analyst. I specialize in R and creating visualizations and dashboards.
Kerry Regan (pronouns: She/Her)
Utah DHHS
Mary Jewell (pronouns: she/her)
Utah DHHS
I am a genomic epidemiologist at Utah DHHS. I have degrees in biology and epidemiology and now I work to integrate genomic and epidemiologic data for enhanced disease surveillance.
Peter EerNisse Utah DHHS
I am a managing-level scientist and project manager in Salt Lake City, Utah with 25 years of experience completing start-to-finish environmental and public health projects. I am passionate about data analysis and visualization to inform the public and decision makers, and promote science literacy to thwart disinformation. Currently, my focus is on web application development and I produce data-driven web applications for the Utah DHHS. When I am not doing this I dream of my next opportunity to be far out in some remote canyon enjoying a wilderness whitewater river trip.
Sia (pronouns: She/Her)
Utah DHHS (DPH Surveillance Program)
Sia Gerard is the Syndromic Surveillance analyst for the Utah Department of Health and Human Services Division of population Health’s Surveillance team.
Yiran Qin (pronouns: He/him/his)
Tooele County Health Department
Zach (pronouns: he)
Weber-Morgan Health Department
Public Health Epidemiologist with experience in injury surveillance, environmental and occupational health, and communicable diseases.
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