William

Kuang-Yao

Pan

,

DrPH

I am a biostatistician with training in remote sensing, spatial analysis, mathematical demography, and certain aspects of ecology related to disease transmission. My primary research interests are to foster a deeper understanding of demographic processes, human health and environmental change using a combination of quantitative tools from biostatistics, geography, and economics. My research integrates multiple data collection tools used in demography, ecology, and laboratory-based studies to geo-reference information that maximize our understanding of underlying social and ecological processes. These tools include in-depth household economic surveys, field-based water monitoring devices, climate monitoring stations, satellite data processing, morphometrics for entomological identification, and blood smears to diagnose malaria infections. I firmly believe that any practitioner of public health should actively participate in data collection to better understand how tools are used in research and the limits of inference. This practice has helped me to better understand demographic factors influencing land use change, the impact of climate change on diarrhea etiology, risk factors for childhood shigella infection, the relationship between land cover and anophelines larvae distribution, among others. I am open to learning new techniques – quantitative, qualitative or biological – that help better understand population-environment, environment-health and population-health relationships.  

Several of my projects are listed at: http://iqtlab.org

4th term special seminar homepage: https://my.jhsph.edu/sites/IH/pan/  
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