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Rex Alirigia

Raleigh,NC

Summary

I have a solid foundation in research methodologies and data analysis. Effectively contributed to multiple research projects, showcasing a keen eye for detail and problem-solving abilities. Demonstrated strong collaboration and critical thinking skills in both independent and team-driven environments.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Graduate Research Assistant

North Carolina State University
01.2023 - Current
  • Managed multiple research projects simultaneously, ensuring timely completion and adherence to high-quality standards.
  • Enhanced research quality by conducting thorough literature reviews and synthesizing findings.
  • Utilized advanced statistical software to analyze large datasets, uncovering key insights for informed decisionmaking.
  • Participated in regular meetings with project supervisors, providing progress updates and discussing potential challenges or areas for improvement.
  • Assisted in manuscript preparation, contributing to the publication of influential articles in peer-reviewed journals.
  • Planned, modified and executed research techniques, procedures and tests.
  • Presented research findings at conferences and workshops, fostering professional growth and collaboration within the academic community.
  • Designed surveys and interview protocols for primary data collection, ensuring accurate representation of target populations.
  • Contributed to professionally-written scientific paper for publication.
  • Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to advance research objectives and achieve project milestones.
  • Recorded data and maintained source documentation following good documentation practices.

Graduate Research Assistant

North Carolina State University
08.2022 - 01.2023
  • Study: Real Time Analytics to Monitor and Predict Emerging Plant Disease
  • Organize a threat scenario workshop to understand stakeholders’ perceptions of the plant aid database (pandemic prediction system) and the potential to integrate this into existing practices

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Colorado
09.2017 - 05.2019
  • Study: Prices, Peers, and Perceptions: Field Experiments on Technology Adoption in the Context of Improved Cookstoves
  • Checked incoming data for accuracy and integrity, independently identifying and resolving problems
  • Provided comprehensive research assistance and support in the project implementation
  • Collected and analyzed qualitative data from focus group discussions
  • Analyzed quantitative surveys and monitoring data using Stata and Excel
  • Assisted with research for academic publications
  • Gave public presentations of findings at conferences

Research Officer

Navrongo Health Research Center
07.2015 - 06.2017
  • Study: Peers, Price and Perception: Field Experiments on Technology Adoption in the context of Improved Cook stoves
  • Supported in the design and implementation of the study
  • Coordinated all field project activities (survey and exposure measurements)
  • Trained survey data collectors
  • Supervised the collection of field data by ensuring accurate data collection
  • Assisted with academic research publications

Research Officer

Navrongo Health Research Centre
08.2013 - 06.2015
  • Study: Research on Emissions, Air Quality, Climate, and Cooking Technologies in Northern Ghana (REACCTING)
  • Coordinated all field data activities (surveys and exposure measurements)
  • Maintained open and effective communications with project team through stand-up meetings
  • Conducted household surveys
  • Conducted indoor exposure measurements and measured cooking emissions from stoves
  • Attended and prepared monthly progress reports for inter-departmental meetings
  • Assisted with academic research publications

Research Officer/Site Leader

Kintampo Health Research Centre
12.2012 - 01.2013
  • Study: Ghana AMANHI Cohort Event Monitoring Study
  • Organized and conducted meetings with investigators, group conferences and special events
  • Provided hands-on technical support, advice and mentoring to all levels of personnel
  • Prepared daily project status updates to keep staff up-to-date on program changes and task requirements
  • Supervised 26 field personnel and two coordinators

Assistant Programs Officer

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
06.2012 - 12.2012
  • Led environmental awareness and education campaigns on flood mitigation
  • Investigated environmental issues related to mining
  • Led an environmental campaign on the effects of mining chemicals to small scale miners and farmers
  • Wrote field reports

Research Officer

Kintampo Health Research Centre
11.2010 - 06.2012
  • Study: Delivery System Determinants of Effective Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) based Artemisinin Combination Drug for malaria
  • Coordinate all field activities of the Techiman Sub Zone
  • Wrote weekly Techiman zonal Reports
  • Supervised 15 field personnel
  • Ensured quality control and quality Assurance of data collected

Field Worker

Navrongo Health Research Centre
01.2005 - 03.2006
  • Study: Inequality in Access to Health Information and the Birth Cohort Study
  • Collected field data on socio-economic and health status

Education

PhD - Forestry and Environmental Resources

North Carolina State University
11.2024

Master of Science - Environmental Studies

University of Colorado, Boulder
12.2019

Master of Arts - (IDS)-Environment and Resource Management

University for Development Studies Ghana
12.2010

Skills

  • Teamwork and collaboration
  • Analytical thinking
  • Self-directed and motivated
  • Academic presentations
  • Project management
  • Research and analysis
  • Data analysis
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Scientific paper experience
  • Grant writing
  • Data interpretation
  • Data organization
  • Scientific communication
  • Problem-solving
  • Data coding and analysis

Publications

  • Furgurson, J., Loschin, N., Butoto, E., Abugu, M., Gillespie, C. J., Brown, R., Ferraro, G., Speicher, N., Stokes, R., Budnick, A., Geist, K., Alirigia, R., Andrews, A., & Mainello, A. (2023). Seizing the policy moment in crop biotech regulation: An interdisciplinary response to the Executive Order on biotechnology. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 11, 1241537. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2023.1241537Health impacts of a randomized biomass cookstove intervention in northern Ghana, Mona Abdo, Ernest Kanyomse, Rex Alirigia, Evan R. Coffey, Ricardo Piedrahita, David Diaz-Sanchez, Yolanda Hagar, Daniel J. Naumenko, Christine Wiedinmyer, Michael P. Hannigan, Abraham Rexford Oduro and Katherine L. Dickinson, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12164-y
  • Updated Emission Factors from Diffuse Combustion Sources in Sub-Saharan Africa and Their Effect on Regional Emission Estimates, David J. Pfotenhauer, Evan R. Coffey, Ricardo Piedrahita, Desmond Agao, Rex Alirigia, Didier Muvandimwe, Forrest Lacey, Christine Wiedinmyer, Katherine L. Dickinson, Maxwell Dalaba, Ernest Kanyomse, Abraham Oduro, and Michael P. Hannigan, 2019, 10.1021/acs.est.8b06155
  • Prices, peers, and perceptions (P3): study protocol for improved biomass cookstove project in northern Ghana, Katherine L. Dickinson, Maxwell Dalaba, Zachary S. Brown, Rex Alirigia, Evan R. Coffey, Elise Mesenbring, Manies Achazanaga, Desmond Agao, Moro Ali, Ernest Kanyomse, Julius Awaregya, Clifford Amoah Adagenera, John Bosco A. Aburiya, Bernard Gubilla, Abraham Rexford Oduro and Michael P. Hannigan, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-6116-z
  • Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Supply and Demand for Cooking in Northern Ghana, Dalaba M, Alirigia R, Mesenbring E, Coffey E, Brown Z, Hannigan M, Wiedinmyer C, Oduro A, Dickinson KL, 2018, 10.1007/s10393-018-1351-4
  • Rural-urban differences in cooking practices and exposures in Northern Ghana, Wiedinmyer, C., K.L. Dickinson, R. Piedrahita, E. Kanyomse, E.Coffey, M. Hannigan, R. Alirigia, and A. Oduro, 2017, PMID:11445512
  • Research on Emissions, Air quality, Climate, and Cooking Technologies in Northern Ghana (REACCTING), Dickinson, K.L., E. Kanyomse, R. Piedrahita, E. Coffey, I. Rivera, J. Adoctor, R. Alirigia, D. Muvandimwe, M. Dove, V. Dukic, M. Hayden, D. Diaz-Sanchez, V. Adoctor, D. Anaseba, Y. Slichter, N. Masson, A. Monaghan, A. Titati, D. Steinhoff, Y-Y. Hsu, R. Kaspar, B. Brooks, A. Hodgson, M. Hannigan, A. R. Oduro, and C. Wiedinmyer, 2015, 10.1186/s12889-015-1414-1
  • Changing Weather and Climate in Northern Ghana: Comparison of Local perceptions with Meteorological and Land Cover Data, Dickinson, K.L, A. Monaghan, R. Kasper, E. Kanyomse, R. Alirigia, I. Rivera, J. Adoctor, A.R Oduro and C. Wiedinmyer, 2016, REEC-D-15-0030R1
  • Assessment of cookstove stacking in Northern Ghana using surveys and stove use monitors, R. Piedrahita, K. L. Dickinson, E. Coffey, E. Kanyomse, R. Alirigia, Y. Slichter, I. Rivera, A. Oduro, V. Dukic, C. Wiedinmyer, and M. Hannigan, 2016, Science of the Total Environment
  • Exposures to and origins of carbonaceous PM2.5 in a cookstove intervention in Northern Ghana, R. Piedrahita, E. Kanyomse, E. Coffey, M. Xie, Y. Slichter, R. Alirigia, F. Agyei, C. Wiedinmyer, K. L. Dickinson, A. Oduro, and M. Hannigan, 2016, Science of the Total Environment

Training

  • Sustainable Energy Transition Initiative (SETI), Chile, 05/2019
  • Workshop on Household Energy Impact Evaluation, University of Colorado, 11/2018
  • Research proposal writing for junior researchers, USAID (Evaluate for Health), 08/2016
  • Writing Successful Grants, USAID (Evaluate for Health. Ghana), 04/2016
  • Knowledge Management and Research Translation, USAID (Evaluate for Health), 03/2016
  • Adoption of Clean Cook Stoves and Fuels in 100 million households by 2020, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC), 11/2015

Grants

Duke University, Sustainable Energy Transition Initiative (SETI) summer 2018 research grant, $5000

Awards

  • 2023 AgBioFEWS minor Fellow, Genetic Engineering and Society Center (GES) - North Carolina State University



Timeline

Graduate Research Assistant

North Carolina State University
01.2023 - Current

Graduate Research Assistant

North Carolina State University
08.2022 - 01.2023

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Colorado
09.2017 - 05.2019

Research Officer

Navrongo Health Research Center
07.2015 - 06.2017

Research Officer

Navrongo Health Research Centre
08.2013 - 06.2015

Research Officer/Site Leader

Kintampo Health Research Centre
12.2012 - 01.2013

Assistant Programs Officer

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
06.2012 - 12.2012

Research Officer

Kintampo Health Research Centre
11.2010 - 06.2012

Field Worker

Navrongo Health Research Centre
01.2005 - 03.2006

Master of Science - Environmental Studies

University of Colorado, Boulder

Master of Arts - (IDS)-Environment and Resource Management

University for Development Studies Ghana

PhD - Forestry and Environmental Resources

North Carolina State University
Rex Alirigia