Partners
Our Partners.
Professor Erick Suarez Perez
For the last 32 years, I have been an academic Biostatistician at the University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Public Health. During this period, I have been involved in different research projects, where I have developed the experience to apply statistical analysis and rigorous methodologies in solving Public Health problems in population-based studies and secondary data analysis. I have the experience to design and analyze population-based data from health surveys using complex sampling designs at national or local level in Puerto Rico. As former Co-Leader of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core, of the UPRCC/MDACC Partnership for Excellence in Cancer Research during 2007-2013, I led our team to develop a large-scale research and publication infrastructure, using the data from the Puerto Rico Central Cancer Registry (PRCCR) and SEER. My research interest using the cancer registry was the assessment of health disparities in incidence and mortality for different types of cancers in Puerto Rico as compared with other racial/ethnic groups in the US, and the effect of a socioeconomic position index at municipality level using the US Census Bureau data in cancer incidence and mortality in Puerto Rico. During this period, 13 research manuscripts were published in peer-review journals describing cancer health disparities in Puerto Rico. Important part of the team involved in this publication effort were Dr. Marievelisse Soto Salgado, which are part of the research team for this proposal. Recently, I have been involved with colleagues of the University of George Washington (UGW) to assess the mortality excess after the hurricane María in Puerto Rico; this effort is part of the collaborative agreement between the Department of Global Health of the UGW Milken Institute School of Public Health and the School of Public Health of the University of Puerto Rico.
Recently, I have being working with the estimation of the excess mortality in Puerto Rico due to the COVID-19 pandemic using the GAM models. In addition, I am working with the mortality projections of COVID-19 using non-linear models to estimate the epidemiological curves in the short term.
Nicola Stephen
Is a designer with over a decade of experience in the industry. In that time she has worked on print and digital and although she enjoys both equally, in recent years her focus has been mostly on digital and exploring motion to grow with the industry. Her favourite aspect, is working a project from concept to delivery, – obviously working alone is great but she loves being a part of a team where everybody gets stuck in to create something ace. Which is why she jumped at the opportunity to help out with Coronagenes. She wanted to help with the current situation and obviously the only way to help initially was to stay at home, which she did and is still doing, but she felt a little unsure of how she could be of use. This study is super important and she wanted to get the message out there so she, along with the team, created a suite of social media assets to encourage a larger demographic of people to take part.