Hi, I'm A. I'm a PhD candidate in Yale's Computational Biology and Bioinformatics program working with Rick Altice and Robert Heimer among others. My work looks at fatal opioid-detected overdoses in Connecticut and aims to 1) understand the age distribution of fatal ODs to get a better sense of who's dying 2) understand how professionals learn about ODs and what communication systems they prefer 3) evaluate the causal effect of the state's overdose alert infrastructure on subsequent overdose rates. The goal is for these projects to motivate targeted intervention efforts and improved communication strategies to reduce overdose rates statewide. In the past I've also worked on projects related to trans healthcare.
I have created some public resources related to opioid-involved overdoses. You can see an in-depth explanation of overdose deaths in CT at ctoverdosedeath.github.io and a list of all organizations that could potentially respond to overdoses in the state here.
Before coming to Yale, I did my BS and MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. You can reach me at a.ram[at]yale.edu, especially if you want help accessing paywalled journal articles or other online resources I have access to through Yale.
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