Ph.D. Student Profile

Jessica  Bishai  , MS  (she/her)

Jessica Bishai , MS (she/her)

Education

MS, Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington (2023)
BA, Statistics, Harvard College (2020)

Research Interests & Projects

  • Firearm Violence 
  • Urban Planning and the Built Environment
  • Social Infrastructure and Social Capital
  • Excess Heat 
  • Demography
  • Spatial Epidemiology
  • Causal Inference
  • Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR)

Selected Publications

- GBD 2021 Diseases and Injuries Collaborators including Bishai, J. Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet

- GBD 2021 Causes of Death Collaborators including Bishai, J. Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet

- GBD 2021 Risk Factor Collaborators including Bishai, J. Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet

- GBD 2021 Sickle Cell Disease Collaborators including Bishai, J. Global, regional, and national prevalence and mortality burden of sickle cell disease, 2000–2021: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet Haematology

- GBD 2021 Anaemia Collaborators including Bishai, J. Prevalence, years lived with disability, and trends in anaemia burden by severity and cause, 1990–2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet Haematology

- Ma Elena Medina-Mora, Ricardo Orozco, Claudia Rafful, Martha Cordero, Jessica Bishai, Alize Ferrari, Damian Santomauro, Corina Benjet, Guilherme Borges, Ana M Mantilla-Herrera. Mental disorders in Mexico 1990-2021. Results from the Global Burden of Disease 2021 study. Gaceta Medica de Mexico

Classes Taken

HBHE 600, HBHE 622, HBHE 800, HBHE 823, SW 655, EPID 685, HBHE 710.003, HBHE 733, HBHE 810

Computing Experience

Advanced proficiency in R
Intermediate proficiency in Stata, Python, and cluster computing

Additional Information

Jessica is a Population Studies Center trainee at the Institute for Social Research through an NICHD training grant.