David Crow
Data Scientist
Sacramento,CA
Summary
Expert applied statistician and data scientist; 25 years' experience in social and epidemiological research in the public sector, private sector, and academia. Ph.D. in Government (Political Science), with an emphasis in quantitative methodology and survey research. Lifelong baseball fan.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Research Scientist IV
California Department of Public Health
11.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: climate and health modelling scientist; researching relationship between weather events and climate-related deaths and emergency department visits; “nowcasting” and predictive modelling for heat-related deaths; analyzed California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data
- Climate and health modelling scientist; researching relationship between weather events and climate-related deaths and emergency department visits; “nowcasting” and predictive modelling for heat-related deaths; analyzed California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data
Population Data Task Force
California Department of Public Health
08.2022 - Current
- Company Overview: led Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) subcommittee; identified sources of data to estimate SOGI subpopulations as denominators in rate calculations; proof of concept for small area estimation (SAE) and spatial modelling of SOGI populations
- Led Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) subcommittee; identified sources of data to estimate SOGI subpopulations as denominators in rate calculations; proof of concept for small area estimation (SAE) and spatial modelling of SOGI populations
Research Scientist III
California Department of Public Health
09.2018 - 10.2023
- Company Overview: epidemiological surveillance and statistical modelling around opioid morbidity and mortality; analyze and interpret drug overdose data and create data products; conduct program evaluation research
- Epidemiological surveillance and statistical modelling around opioid morbidity and mortality; analyze and interpret drug overdose data and create data products; conduct program evaluation research
Instructor
California State University Sacramento
09.2021 - 12.2021
- Company Overview: taught research design and biostatistics for MPH students
- Taught research design and biostatistics for MPH students
COVID Modelling Team
California Department of Public Health
07.2020 - 08.2021
- Company Overview: assessed model performance for hospitalization projections, explored relationships between indicators (R-effective, doubling time, hospitalizations, deaths); determined optimum testing number; evaluated impact of stay-at-home orders
- Assessed model performance for hospitalization projections, explored relationships between indicators (R-effective, doubling time, hospitalizations, deaths); determined optimum testing number; evaluated impact of stay-at-home orders
Research Associate/Consultant
Gestión Social, A.C.
01.2006 - 12.2018
- Company Overview: Mexico City
- Mexico City
Visiting Scholar
University of Minnesota
08.2017 - 08.2018
- Company Overview: Institute for Global Studies
- Institute for Global Studies
Associate Professor (Profesor-Investigador)
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
07.2010 - 08.2018
- Company Overview: joint appointment in Public Policy and International Studies; taught Research Methods to Ph.D students; Advanced Quantitative Methods to undergrads; senior thesis seminar; dissertation advisor
- Joint appointment in Public Policy and International Studies; taught Research Methods to Ph.D students; Advanced Quantitative Methods to undergrads; senior thesis seminar; dissertation advisor
Director, Las Américas y el Mundo
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
08.2013 - 03.2015
- Company Overview: CIDE-based Latin American research consortium; seven-country survey project on public opinion toward foreign policy and international relations
- CIDE-based Latin American research consortium; seven-country survey project on public opinion toward foreign policy and international relations
Associate Director
UC Riverside
09.2008 - 06.2010
- Company Overview: Survey Research Center; research project management, development, data analysis and reporting, survey weighting, sample design
- Survey Research Center; research project management, development, data analysis and reporting, survey weighting, sample design
Instructor
UC Riverside
01.2009 - 05.2009
- Company Overview: Political Science Department; taught “Mass Media and Public Opinion,” conducted class survey project on ballot initiatives for May 2009 California Special Election
- Political Science Department; taught “Mass Media and Public Opinion,” conducted class survey project on ballot initiatives for May 2009 California Special Election
Education
Ph.D. - Government
University of Texas at Austin
05.2009
B.A. - English Language and Literature
University of California, Berkeley
05.1992
Skills
Scientific Communication
Data Science
Predictive Analytics
Statistical Modelling
Storytelling Graphics
Interpersonal Communication
Relationship Building
Research Project Planning
Continuing Training in Data Science
- Python for Data Analysis, 12/05/22
- Python Programing Seminar – Advanced with Machine Learning, 09/24/21
- Python Programing Seminar – Basic for Statistical Programmers and Statisticians, 09/17/21
- Advanced T-SQL Querying, Programming and Tuning for SQL Server 2012-2019, 06/07/21
- Modern Geospatial Data Analysis with R, 06/25/19
- Building Web Application with R’s Shiny Package, 06/05/19
- Big Data Specialization, 08/01/17 - 03/01/18
- Bayesian Regression Modeling via MCMC Techniques, 05/01/09 - 06/01/09
- SAS Global Forum, 03/22/09 - 03/25/09
- SAS Conference, UC Riverside, 11/22/08 - 11/23/08
- Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (IPCSR), 07/01/05 - 08/01/05
Continuing Professional Development in Leadership
- Changing Lanes into Leadership, 05/19/22
- Project Management Fundamentals, 04/19/22
Consulting Experience
- Mexico Awareness Raising Project, Partners of the Americas/U.S. Department of Labor, 09/01/21 - 01/01/22
- Survey of Second and Third Generation Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, Lucid Consulting & Shoah Foundation, 01/01/18 - 07/01/18
- Rotoplas Health Intervention Survey, Gestión Social y Cooperación (GESOC), A.C., 11/01/14 - 01/01/15
- Encuesta Regional para la Convivencia Ciudadana, Gestión Social y Cooperación (GESOC), A.C., 09/01/13 - 03/01/14
- Encuesta Regional sobre el Programa de Prevención de la Violencia y el Crimen (PPVC), Gestión Social y Cooperación, A.C., 09/01/12 - 05/01/13
- Survey Human Rights Perceptions Polls, University of Minnesota–Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 06/01/12 - present
- Encuesta estatal de la dinámica de la familia en Puebla (ESDIFAM-Puebla), Gestión Social y Cooperación, A.C., 01/01/12 - 05/01/12
Statistical Packages and Programming Languages
- Changing Lanes into Leadership, 05/19/22
- Project Management Fundamentals, 04/19/22
Training Sessions Imparted
- Experiments and Observational Studies, 2015
- Constructing Scales and Indices, 2015
- Sampling and Complex Variance, 2015
- Data Management and Analysis in SPSS, 2007
Selected Grants and Fellowships
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Overdose Data to Action (OD2A), $5,700,000 USD, 2019-2022
- Woodrow Wilson Center fellow, Washington, D.C., 06/01/18 - 08/01/18
- Comisión Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Conacyt) Sabbatical Grant, $18,000 USD, 2017-2018
- Open Society Foundation, $165,000 USD, Local Funding for Human Rights: A Mexican and Colombian Project., 2016-2017
- Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina/CAF, $65,000 USD, The Americas and the World., 2014-2015
- Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores de México/Secretaría General Iberoamericana (SEGIB, Spain), 62,000 €, The Americas and the World., 2013-2014
- National Science Foundation Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (SES-0519262), $12,000 USD, 09/01/05 - 09/01/06
Refereed Articles in Epidemiology
- “Assessing the accuracy of California county level COVID-19 hospitalization forecasts to inform public policy decision making,” BMC Public Health, 2023
- COVIDNearTerm: A simple method to forecast COVID-19 hospitalizations, Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2022
- Impacts of prescription drug monitoring program policy changes and county opioid safety coalitions on prescribing and overdose outcomes in CA, 2015-2018, Preventive Medicine, 2021
Selected CDPH Data Products
- Prevalence and Trends in Self-Reported Drug Use in California, 2017-2020, Data brief of Substance and Addiction Prevention Branch (SAPB), in progress.
- COVID-19 Testing Volume, White paper for CDPH leadership, COVID Modelling Team, amount of testing required to detect COVID increases., 04/01/21
- Counting Opioid Overdose Deaths Among American Indians Using Different Definitions, Data brief of the Injury and Violence Prevention Branch (IVPB)., 06/01/19
Manuscript in Progress
LGBTQ Identity, Depression, and Heroin Use: Evidence from the 2017-2023 California Health Interview Survey, Elisse Wright (UC Davis)
Book
Taking Root: Human Rights and Public Opinion in the Global South, James Ron, Shannon Golden, Archana Pandya, Oxford University Press, 2017
Selected Refereed Articles
- Talk Without Borders: Why Political Discussion Makes Latin Americans with Relatives Abroad More Critical of Their Democracies, Comparative Political Studies, 02/01/18
- Freedom of Information in Times of Crisis? The Case of Mexico’s War on Drugs, Governance, 05/19/17
- Rights Trap or Amplifier? Crime and Trust in Local Human Rights Organizations in Mexico, Journal of Human Rights, 07/01/17 - 09/01/17
- Universal Values, Foreign Money: The Political Economy of Local Human Rights Organizations, Review of International Political Economy, 02/01/16
- Different Pedagogy, Different Politics: High School Learning Opportunities and Youth Political Engagement, Political Psychology, 06/01/13
- The Party’s Over: Citizen Conceptions of Democracy and Political Dissatisfaction in Mexico, Comparative Politics, 10/01/10
- Do Migrants Remit Democracy? International Migration and Political Beliefs and Behavior in Mexico, Comparative Political Studies, 01/01/10
Selected Working Papers and Other Publications
- Monetizing the human rights ‘brand’, openGlobalRights, 05/04/17
- Ordinary people will pay for rights. We asked them, openGlobalRights, 02/15/17
- Mapping human rights skepticism in Mexico, openGlobalRights, 07/01/15
- A Unified Log-linear Modelling Framework for Post-Stratification and Raking Weights: an Application to the National Asian American Survey (NAAS), 06/01/09
Timeline
Research Scientist IV
California Department of Public Health
11.2023 - Current
Population Data Task Force
California Department of Public Health
08.2022 - Current
Instructor
California State University Sacramento
09.2021 - 12.2021
COVID Modelling Team
California Department of Public Health
07.2020 - 08.2021
Research Scientist III
California Department of Public Health
09.2018 - 10.2023
Visiting Scholar
University of Minnesota
08.2017 - 08.2018
Director, Las Américas y el Mundo
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
08.2013 - 03.2015
Associate Professor (Profesor-Investigador)
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
07.2010 - 08.2018
Instructor
UC Riverside
01.2009 - 05.2009
Associate Director
UC Riverside
09.2008 - 06.2010
Research Associate/Consultant
Gestión Social, A.C.
01.2006 - 12.2018
Ph.D. - Government
University of Texas at Austin
B.A. - English Language and Literature
University of California, Berkeley
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