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

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.