MARISHA KASHYAP
Summary
High performing intervention researcher with proven capabilities developing and evaluating community-based programs that serve marginalized families with young children. Committed to equity, community engagement, cultural responsiveness, and leveraging a trauma-informed, and strengths-based approach.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Research and Evaluation Intern
California Alliance Catalyst Center
06.2022
- Supported planning and strategizing efforts to establish Catalyst Center Research Hub consisting of committees dedicated to data collection, analysis, dissemination, and program evaluation of statewide mental and behavioral health initiatives for children, youth, and families
- Conducted literature review and background research for 'Thriving into Adulthood', a $583,290 project that aims to leverage advocacy, policy, and implementation efforts to expand MediCal behavioral health services among transition age foster youth in Los Angeles County
- Organized and streamlining California Alliance Catalyst Center's data bank of grant operations, partnerships, and consortiums to inform future projects and collaborations across the nation
- Contributed to recommendation report on best practices in state-wide capacity building of Short Term Residential Therapeutic Programs (STRTPs) to guide California Department of Social Services (CDSS) efforts in advancing mental and behavioral health initiatives for children and families involved in the child welfare system.
Graduate Researcher
California State University, Institute of Social Research
09.2023 - Current
- Creating surveys to collect pretest and posttest data on academic outcomes from Asian American, Native American, and Pacific Islander students across Sacramento, California to inform outcome evaluation efforts of 'Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions Program (AANAPISI)', a 1.3 million dollar project that aims to improve educational equity in AAPI communities
- Synthesizing incoming survey data to inform outcome evaluation report.
Graduate Researcher
California State University, College of Education
08.2022 - 08.2023
- Developed informational brochures about public assistance programs such as Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) for undocumented immigrant parents with children age 0-5 years
- Developed focus group protocols to understand undocumented immigrant families' access to public assistance programs, and what community level factors are associated with the well-being of immigrant parents and their children
- Used purposive sampling techniques to identify direct service providers, CA state, and county officials that support undocumented immigrants to enroll in qualified public assistance programs.
Community Engagement & Advocacy Intern
The Children's Partnership (TCP)
10.2021 - 08.2022
- Led efforts to develop community-friendly factsheets on oral health, Covered CA and MediCal health insurance coverage, coronavirus vaccine for at California's most vulnerable children as part of TCP's ALL IN for Health Program
- Single handedly organized a webinar titled 'Protect Your Kids: The Virus, The Variant, and The Vaccine' to raise awareness among families across California about the implications of Omicron variant of coronavirus on preschool to elementary school age children
- Supported efforts to host a webinar titled 'Understanding New Milestones for Infants and Toddlers: Connecting All Kids to Services' aimed at raising awareness among more than 100 childcare providers across the country about the updated developmental milestones released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Organized and streamlined a TCP-wide research data bank to document projects and programs serving underserved children and families across California
- Attended several online legislative hearings covering a wide range of topics in child and family well-being.
Program Coordinator
Columbia University, Community Pediatrics
12.2019 - 05.2021
- Developed and maintained Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocols in compliance with Human Subjects Research Protection guidelines, created and reviewed baseline needs assessment, pretest and posttest evaluation surveys, culturally sensitive curriculum, and determined criteria case sampling, for an American Academy of Pediatrics Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) funded in-person and distance learning hybrid health education program titled 'Healthy Kids NYC' for 35 homeless families in Bronx with children under 5 years of age on topics such child behavior management, early detection of speech and motor developmental delays, and facilitate referrals to pediatric primary health care services in order to reduce risk of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
- Independently developed logic model, process and outcome evaluation frameworks, determined research design, and conducted literature review, as part of a $50,000 implementation grant proposal to National Maternal Child Health Workforce Development Center for 'Come Home NY: Helping Homeless Children Thrive', a 5 year training program to build knowledge and capacity of homeless shelter staff around ACEs in the context of housing insecurity, and expediting referrals for early intervention programs, developmental screenings, and behavioral health services with the intent to inform best practices and policies in children's behavioral health across New York City (NYC)
- Provided project management assistance to stakeholders representing New York City Department of Homeless Services, American Academy of Pediatrics, New York University Langone Health, Mount Sinai Health System, Care for the Homeless, and Columbia University Medical Center to support decision-making, and programmatic sustainability of Healthy Kids NYC and Come Home NY.
Research Assistant
New York Presbyterian Child Advocacy Center
11.2019 - 05.2021
- Used Microsoft Excel and Electronic Medical Records to identify retrospective cases of infants aged 0-23 months with bilateral skull fractures
- Independently gathered data from Microsoft Excel into SPSS, cleaned, validated, secured database in a password protected file, created data dictionary, and tracked data for internal use among 13 participating medical institutions across United States, developed and maintained IRB protocols in compliance with Human Subjects Research Protection
- Used SPSS for simple and complex recoding of study variables, conducting descriptive analysis, inferential analyses using Pearson chi-square test, and multivariate logistic regression on a sample of about 300 infants to determine significance of association between predictor variables measuring age, race/ethnicity, sex, psychosocial risk factors, caregivers' account of source of head trauma in infants, infant bilateral skull fracture location, orientation, approximation at sagittal suture, intracranial hemorrhage, scalp abrasions, and anatomic findings of oral, abdominal trauma
- Prepared written manuscript for publication with Pediatric Emergency Care and presented findings from study at Ray
- E
- Helfer Society.
Researcher
Amaltas Research and Development Consulting
06.2018 - 08.2018
- Determined convenience and criteria case sampling procedures, created an in-depth qualitative interview guide and conducted phone interviews of nearly 50 pediatric therapists predominantly serving preschool children with intellectual and developmental disorders in Delhi, India
- Authored a quality improvement study titled 'Service Providers' Perspective on Caring for Children with Intellectual and Developmental Challenges' assessing service utilization, patient pathways, and barriers to patient follow-up, to encourage Department of Women and Child Development, New Delhi, to formulate policies promoting family centered pediatric therapeutic and parental counseling services that focus on the strengths and needs of children with intellectual and developmental disorders and their caretakers, with the intent to reduce risk of child neglect, abuse, other forms of ACEs, and improve quality of early child care.
Researcher
Anubandh
11.2016 - 07.2017
- Created survey instruments to collect quantitative data and in-depth interview and focus group guides to collect qualitative data from remote rural communities in Uttar Pradesh, India, to determine the healthcare, sanitation, employment, and education accessibility status of resource poor families
- Analyzed quantitative and qualitative data to propose uptake of a community-based child, youth, and family well-being service delivery intervention titled 'Model of Self-reliance' as a state level safety net policy in Uttar Pradesh with the intent to build socio-economic capacity of below poverty line families with children 0-17 years
- Developed a research proposal on local adaptation of the Brazilian initiative of Community Kitchen as part of the intervention to address anemia in pregnant and lactating mothers, as well as malnutrition in children under 5 years of age in a manner that reflected the cultural, linguistic, and ethnic diversity of the populations being served
- Single handedly prepared and disseminated communication materials including conference presentations, technical reports and briefs to internal and external stakeholders ranging from community-based organizations, self-employed entrepreneurs, Uttar Pradesh state and county officials, and project funders.
Education
MA, Child and Adolescent Development -
California State University, College of Education
Sacramento, CAMPH, Population and Family Health (Concentration in Public Health Research Methods) -
Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
New York, NYBA, Economics -
Delhi University, Lady Shri Ram College
Skills
- Data Collection: Qualtrics, KoboToolbox, and SurveyMonkey
- Data Analysis: SPSS, Microsoft Excel, Dedoose, NVivo
- Data Visualization: Microsoft Excel, QGIS, Tableau
- Project Management: Microsoft Teams, Basecamp
Accomplishments
- 2022 - Best feature publication for “Home Sweet Home? Examining Residential Instability and Early Mathematics Development of Preschoolers in CUNY Academic Works
- 2020 - Best Article Award for “Male focused breast-feeding promotion programs: A new route for child survival programming worldwide” in Volume 3 Issue 2, ACTA Scientific Publications
Presentations
- Integrating MHealth Technology into Community based Doula Programs: Extending Childcare Support to Adolescent Single Mothers, Boston Congress of Public Health, December 2022, Conference
- Healthy Kids NYC: A CATCH Funded Health Education Program for Families Experiencing Homelessness, American Academy of Pediatrics, July 2021, Conference
- Retrospective Case Review of Bilateral Skull Fractures in Infancy Raising Suspicion for Child Abuse, Ray E. Helfer Society, April 2021, Conference
- A Summative Evaluation of Medic Mobile Pilot in Mwandi, Zambia: Next Steps for Telemedicine Policy and Practice in Maternal and Child Health Programming, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, October 2019, Poster
- Parenting Practices as it Impacts Early Childhood Development: Starting Conversations about Adverse Childhood Experiences as Man Made Disasters, DAT/Artathon’21, August 2021, Workshop
- Effective Data Collection in the Context of Childhood Adversity: Capturing Risk and Resilience to Inform Child Wellbeing Policy and Practice, DAT/Artathon’21, July 2021, Workshop
- Service Providers’ Perspective on Caring for Children with Developmental Challenges, Amaltas Research and Development Consulting, August 2018, Workshop
Publications
Understanding Bilateral Skull Fractures in Infancy: A Retrospective Multi-Center Case Review, Pediatric Emergency Care, 2022 Home Sweet Home? Examining Residential Instability and Early Mathematics Development of Preschoolers, Hunter College Libraries, 2021 Integrating Mobile Health Technology in Community Based Doula Programs to Extend Childcare Services to Adolescent Single Mothers, Harvard Public Health Review, 2021 Follow the Love: Scaffolding Permanent Connections, True, 2023
Timeline
Graduate Researcher
California State University, Institute of Social Research
09.2023 - Current
Graduate Researcher
California State University, College of Education
08.2022 - 08.2023
Research and Evaluation Intern
California Alliance Catalyst Center
06.2022
Community Engagement & Advocacy Intern
The Children's Partnership (TCP)
10.2021 - 08.2022
Program Coordinator
Columbia University, Community Pediatrics
12.2019 - 05.2021
Research Assistant
New York Presbyterian Child Advocacy Center
11.2019 - 05.2021
Researcher
Amaltas Research and Development Consulting
06.2018 - 08.2018
Researcher
Anubandh
11.2016 - 07.2017
MA, Child and Adolescent Development -
California State University, College of Education
MPH, Population and Family Health (Concentration in Public Health Research Methods) -
Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
BA, Economics -
Delhi University, Lady Shri Ram College
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