Hi there! My name is Salvador Balkus. I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
My research interests include causal inference, semiparametric statistics, spatial and longitudinal data, and environmental health. I am currently advised by Professor Nima Hejazi. At Harvard, I also am affiliated with the National Studies on Air Pollution and Health and the Massachusetts Center for Advancing Cancer Control Engaged Research Through Transformative Solutions (Mass-ACCERT).
Previously, I earned my Bachelor’s in Data Science from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. As an undergraduate, I worked under Professor Hua Fang in the Computational Statistics and Data Science Lab on a variety of topics in smart health and distributed learning.
Before that, I spent time as a research assistant in the UMass Dartmouth Public Policy Center, where I studied the Blue Economy and social determinants of health in Southeastern New England.