Poultry market worker exposures to airborne avian influenza
Layla Kwong, Professor
Public Health
Closed. This professor is continuing with Fall 2024 apprentices on this project; no new apprentices needed for Spring 2025.
Influenzas infect 3-5 million hosts annually. Originating in avian hosts, novel strains of influenza virus have high mortality when they are transmitted to humans. Live poultry markets, including those in Bangladesh, are known focal points of disease transmission. We have collected data on building dynamics, worker exposures, and airborne avian influenza across 10 multi-seller poultry markets in Bangladesh. We are looking for a URAP student to support data cleaning and analysis of collected data to better understand the elements of building design and ventilation that affect prevalence of airborne avian influenza in these settings.
Role: Students will assist with cleaning and merging survey data, ventilation data, and lab data. This position can be in-person or remote.
Qualifications: Prior data management and processing experience in R, interest in public health, biostatistics, and/or environmental sciences, and willingness to learn and be meticulous is required. Coursework in biostatistics, data science, or epidemiology is a plus.
Day-to-day supervisor for this project: Chris LeBoa, Post-Doc
Hours: 6-8 hrs
Environmental Issues Biological & Health Sciences