Amy Y.

Project Manager at Penn State

United States

About

Experience

  • Project Manager at Penn State University
    Aug 2023 - Jun 2026 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    • Managed the full lifecycle of the first four rounds of opioid settlement fund reporting processes across 100+ counties and litigating subdivisions in Pennsylvania. This included creating and delivering reporting tools and publishing a public transparency site, laying a robust foundation for ongoing accountability and future impact • Conducted in-depth quantitative and qualitative data analysis using STATA, SAS, R, and Dedoose for health policy research projects, including investigating racial disparities in emergency department transfers and coding interviews about rural hospital experiences with mergers and acquisitions. Contributed to 4+ reports and publications, providing critical insights to inform future policy decisions

  • Research Assistant at The Data Science Institute at Columbia University
    Jan 2023 - May 2023 · 5 mos

    Wrangled and matched 19,000+ records from noisy and sparse census data to derive meaningful insights and effectively visualize patterns of historical human migration using Python and Tableau

  • Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (1 yr)
    • Teaching Assistant
      Sep 2022 - Dec 2022 · 4 mos

      TA for Quantitative section of PUBH P6031 Research Methods and Application

    • Research Assistant
      May 2022 - Aug 2022 · 4 mos

      • Conducted literature research using Pubmed and Law Atlas and co-wrote the significance section of 3 grant proposals on substance use and health policies to obtain funding for separate research projects • Spearheaded a self-conceived independent research topic investigating complex survey data from the National Survey of Drug Use and Health with R and SAS

    • Teaching Assistant
      Jan 2022 - May 2022 · 5 mos

      TA for PUBH GU4100 (Y)our Longer Life

  • Student Research Assistant at School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong
    Jun 2021 - Aug 2021 · 3 mos

    • Deliberated with a team to deduce infection pairs from restricted Hong Kong COVID-19 data on 5,000+ cases from the Centre for Health Protection with Excel for 3 projects to evaluate the impact of government intervention measures on disease transmission • Accurately communicated findings by co-authoring 3 manuscripts for publication in epidemiological journals and creating figures for visualization after analysis with R. Received 37 citations and ≥ 5,000 views

  • Summer Intern at Being Patient
    Jun 2020 - Oct 2020 · 5 mos

    • Collaborated with a team to design a curriculum for a proposed online course on dementia for the 40,000+ members and used Keynote to summarize findings and create visuals from research articles clearly and precisely • Authored an article on the platform by reporting findings from a scientific journal in a simplified manner, receiving the most engagement on the platform since 2020