This review paper details the effects that epigenetic modifications have on overall human health. The paper talk about...
My Work (In Reverse Chronological Order)
One Health, GPAWSS and Machine Learning Integration
While I was at the US Army Public Health Center, working as a Epidemiologist, I gave two presentations detailing the data processing and limitations for companion animal surveillance within the Department of Defense. GPAWSS is a surveillance platform designed to provide surveillance...
Calculating and Comparing Product Production Time for VS One-Health Products
This Python notebook is a workable and scalable example on how to make a notebook that cleans and analyzes data in a transparent way.
This notebook serves as an abbreviated project and due to formatting errors.
Please utilize the follwoing badge to view the notebook in binder.
...Graduation and the path forward...
Reveal's "redlining" analysis is an example of how not to do data science
I got a text message from my best friend Jeff around 4pm, yesterday and I honestly though he wanted to record some more episodes for our new phone conversation podcast.
He said to call me.
I called him back.
He talked about an episode of a popular podcast he likes...
Dissertation Defense is upcoming!
I will be defending my dissertation titled:
Investigating Spatial Dynamics of Zoonoses between Animal and Human Populations: a One-Health Perspective
(See Below)
120 Episodes, 120 Papers
In preparation of my upcoming Preliminaries and Written Area Exams, I need to will myself to read as much as I can. The task, however, is long, arduous and pretty boring.
So to motivate myself to overcome this hurdle, I will incorporate something that I love and something that I’m...
120 Papers, 120 Episodes
The Host Shapes the Gut Microbiota via Fecal MicroRNA
This paper identifies MiRNAs within rat and human stool samples. This is one of the first studies to analyze miRNAs within fecal...
Paper Reviews
About me
Welcome to my Professional Site!
I am a newly minted PhD in the Department of Epidemiology, located at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, FL. I currently work for Dr. Jason Blackburn’s Spatial Epidemiology & Ecology Research Laboratory (SEER Lab). An interdisciplinary laboratory jointly housed in the Emerging Pathogens Institute and...
Publications
(In Chronological Order)
Wijayabahu, A.T., Waugh, S., Ukhanova, M. and Mai, V., 2019. Dietary raisin intake has limited effect on gut microbiota composition in adult volunteers. Nutrition journal, 18(1), p.14. PMID: 30845997
Tagliamonte, M. S., Waugh, S., Prosperi, M., & Mai, V. (2019, September). An Integrated Approach for Efficient Multi-Omics...
Previous Research
Current Research
My current primary research goal, at the University of Florida, is to develop and/or improve the accuracy of spatial public health databases in semi-developing and/or developed countries, through the integration of other large heterogeneous datasets. This will be done by creating health modeling programs and subroutines that will collect, compile...
Biography
The connections between diseases and illnesses and how they spread and transferred is why I became interested in the realm of medical geography. My overall curiosity of health and spatial interactions grew to include concentrations on disease ecology and epidemiology. Along with attending numerous speeches and discussions about specific diseases...
CV
Check out my current CV and resumes, by following the links below!
Let's get this started!
I finally have to get this site off the ground, so I’ll get started by getting my first post under my belt.
My primary focus, regarding this site, will be the use of R in terms of my upcoming projects and...