LEYA TANMIAYEE JACOB
Lowell,USA
Summary
Passionate public health aspirant with 3+ years of experience in research, program management, diverse community outreach, and work with at-risk populations. Seeking to develop public health knowledge, explore the overarching umbrella with various systems involved, and work for the community's betterment.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Research Assistant
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Lowell, USA
09.2024 - Current
- Company Overview: Center for Community Research and Engagement (CCRE)
- Assist with the implementation and evaluation of two projects, both funded by the City of Lowell. Each brings together diverse partners including local law enforcement, local health department, community organizations, and researchers to analyze and pursue strategies to reach particular community develop goals (e.g., decrease opioid use and overdose fatalities, reduce crime, increase community collaboration and revitalization)
- Creating or refining evaluation plans, logic models, and theories of change
- Designing or adapting data collection instruments such as surveys and interview or focus group protocols
- Identifying and using secondary data sources
- Monitoring data collection for completeness and quality
- Using statistical software to clean, recode, merge, and transform datasets and to perform basic descriptive statistics
- Conducting focus groups and key informant interviews
- Managing and coding qualitative data
- Contributing to writing evaluation reports and other evaluation products including creating graphs, tables, and other figures.
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Lowell, USA
11.2023 - Current
- Assist an NIH research study that aims to estimate the effect of private equity acquisitions on assisted living residents' outcomes
- Assist with data collection, analysis and management
- Identify private equity acquired and divested assisted living communities and linking assisted living properties to the business data
- Assist with finding, downloading, merging, and coding business data (using R/STATA software)
- Attend project meetings
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Lowell, USA
10.2023 - 08.2024
- Assist with data entry/digitization/management
- Work on classification for location-based dataset
- Acquire, download, correct, integrate, and document GPS data from the field to existing GIS datasets
- Assist with data entry, data digitization and processing location-based GIS/accelerometer data for 'The Healthy Aging and Neighborhood Study (HANS)', supported by the National Institute on Aging, which is being conducted in multi-ethnic and multi-racial older adult populations in northeastern and central Massachusetts
Field Coordinator
Makunda Christian Leprosy & General Hospital
Assam, India
05.2022 - 05.2023
- Designation: Field coordinator in the Antenatal & Postnatal Research Collective Project, aiming to curb the prevailing Maternal and Infant Mortality
- Identify and stratify pregnancy risk factors and their associations with adverse pregnancy outcomes
- Analyze medical records/data to identify pregnant women, mothers and infants; and to implement community follow-up of women during their pregnancy and post-natal period
- Mentor fast-paced team of 5 Field supervisors and 50+ Field assistants
- Manage field supervisors & assistants and to monitor their work through field visits
- Maintain the project database, documentation, reporting and providing feedback
- Coordinate with other health care workers and community volunteers to collect study information
- Conduct interviews of local dwellers and other related stakeholders for research purposes
- Organize health awareness camps in the sub-centres
Medical Sociologist (Intern)
Christian Medical College, Vellore
Vellore, India
04.2021 - 04.2022
- Socio-economic and psychological assessments of geriatric patients in the IP
- Comprehensive geriatric assessments in the OPD
- A member of multi-disciplinary team meetings, involved in discharge planning
- Organize and conduct group therapies and geriatric rehabilitation activities among IP patients
- Organize and document family meetings with the caregivers of terminally ill patients, with regards to further continuance of treatment/care
- A member of the health awareness camps conducted at elderly centres, organized by Dept of RUHSA, CMC, Vellore
- NOV 2021- Member of organizing committee of the Continuing Medical Education on 'Comprehensive Management of Cardiac and Pulmonary Challenges of Older Person-An Allied Health Perspective'
- APRIL 2022- Contributed to the learning of doctors at the periphery by giving inputs into the Distance Education program in Geriatrics
Education
Master of Public Health - Epidemiology, Public Health Informatics & Technology (Elective)
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Lowell, MA05.2025
Bachelor of Science - Medical Sociology
Christian Medical College, Vellore
Vellore, India12-2020
Skills
- Microsoft Office Suite
- SAS
- STATA
- SPSS
- Rstudio
- NVivo
- SQL
- Qualtrics
- Tableau
- Adept learner
- Multi-tasking
- Conflict resolution
- Public speaking
- Interpersonal skills
- Leadership
- Critical thinking
- Problem solving
- Networking
- Data Analysis
- Research Paper Writing
- Statistical Analysis
- Research reporting
Accomplishments
ACHIEVEMENTS
Awarded Provost Graduate Fellowship of 10,000$- University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
2023– 2024
2017– 2020
Awarded Adeline Betzy Memorial Medal for the Best Outgoing student of B.Sc.
Medical Sociology course during the period 2017-2020, CMC, Vellore.
2019– 2020
IRB approved Hospital Oriented Project on "'Intangible Burden and Coping Self
Efficacy among caregivers of Patients with Schizophrenia and Major Psychotic
disorders in K. V. Kuppam Block", CMC, Vellore.
2020– 2021
Awarded General Proficiency 1st rank in 3rd year Bsc Medical Sociology, CMC,
Vellore.
2019– 2020
Awarded General Proficiency 1st rank in 2nd year Bsc Medical Sociology, CMC,
Vellore.
2018 – 2019
Awarded General Proficiency 2nd rank in 1st year Bsc Medical Sociology, CMC, Vellore.
Certification
CERTIFICATES OF PARTICIPATION
JULY 2023
Obtained a certification for Continuing Education Units (CEUs) on Rocky Mountain
Spotted Fever Clinical Diagnosis & Treatment from Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
NOV 2019
Participated as a delegate at the National Symposium on Qualitative Research
Methods, CMC, Vellore.
SEPT 2019
Participated in The National Study Conference on Social Work Response to Disasters,
held at Madras Christian College in collaboration with World Vision India.
AUG 2019
Participated as a delegate in AHS COGNITIO 2019-1st National Allied Health
Undergraduate Research Symposium, CMC,Vellore
References
- Cassandra L. Hua, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences, Department of Public Health, 978-934-4297, cassandra_hua@uml.edu
- Kane, Kevin J, Biostatistician Sr., Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences, Department of Public Health, 978-934-4272, kevin_kane@uml.edu
Timeline
Research Assistant
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
09.2024 - Current
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
11.2023 - Current
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
10.2023 - 08.2024
Field Coordinator
Makunda Christian Leprosy & General Hospital
05.2022 - 05.2023
Medical Sociologist (Intern)
Christian Medical College, Vellore
04.2021 - 04.2022
Master of Public Health - Epidemiology, Public Health Informatics & Technology (Elective)
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Bachelor of Science - Medical Sociology
Christian Medical College, Vellore
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