NIH Research Festival 2025

I co-instructed a workshop at the NIH Research Festival 2025 entitled “Geospatial for Everyone: Enhancing Your “Non-spatial” Research with Geospatial Data” with Dr. Nathaniel MacNell. In our workshop, we presented an interactive open-source workflow of geographically linking publicly available data to simulated locations and demonstrated how these data can be used for clinical study design and analysis. We used the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) & National Cancer Institute (NCI) Neighborhood Deprivation Index (NDI) throughout our examples, which is also calculated by my R package ndi (click here for more information). We were one of twenty-six vendor workshops held at the NIH Research Festival chosen out of hundreds of applicants.