Hi, I'm Nistara, an epidemiologist previously with the Wildlife Health Center/One Health Institute, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. I bridge the worlds of animal, human, and environmental health; R programming; disease modeling; and visual story telling.
Interests
- Wildlife & infectious disease epidemiology
- Animal movement
- Network analysis
- Infectious disease modeling
- GIS
- R programming
- Data science & visualization
Education
- PhD - Epidemiology, UC Davis
- MPVM - Preventive Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis
- MVSc - Veterinary Surgery & Radiology, Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University
- BVSc - Veterinary Science, Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University
Skills and tools used
R | Bash | QGIS | GRASS GIS | ArcGIS | Cloud computing (AWS) | Emacs | SQL | Adobe Premiere Pro