Kaya Hedt
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Spanish Professional working proficiency
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Arabic Limited working proficiency
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Experience
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Kingsley Associates
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Printing Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Project Analyst
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Aug 2019 - Present
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Research
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1 - 100 Employee
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Undergraduate Research Assistant
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Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Part time position with a focus on using survival analysis methods to evaluate sports marketing data• Applied statistical methods to a university’s athletic donor database, which consists of 19,677 individuals and spans from 2009 to 2017, in order to determine important factors that contribute to long-lasting university-donor relationships• Presented results in a poster titled “University-Donor Relationships Examined Through Survival Analysis Modeling” at the 2018 UNC Chapel Hill Celebration of Undergraduate Research
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Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC)
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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300 - 400 Employee
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Research Intern
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Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Ten week, full time internship with a focus on developing a dataset of every North Carolina birth and infant death for the years 1997-2016 and teaching MAHEC's researchers how to use Stata• Constructed a single dataset containing every recorded birth and infant death that occurred in North Carolina from 1997 through 2016 (~2 million observations, ~250 variables), based on 41 text files and 10 unique data dictionaries• Developed and implemented data merging strategies and independently learned new data management techniques• Created a four week Stata training and taught it to research scientists and research associates at MAHEC
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D-tree International
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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1 - 100 Employee
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Research Intern
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May 2017 - Aug 2017
Ten week, full time internship analyzing D-Tree's maternal health program and teaching a statistical training course so that future analyses can be performed in-house• Developed research and evaluation questions, led analysis planning, and applied statistical methods to assess the effectiveness of D-Tree’s Zanzibar-based maternal health program• Co-developed and taught a formal statistical course designed for individuals at D-tree and Zanzibar’s Ministry of Health
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Harvard Medical School
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Visiting Undergraduate Research Fellow in Global Health and Social Medicine
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Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Eight week, full time summer internship with a focus on the cleaning and analysis of global health data• Led data cleaning and management of multiple maternal health datasets containing demographic and health information on 20,000 pregnant women from rural Tanzania• Conducted analyses to better understand the role of birth planning on health facility delivery • Presented the results of analyses in a final written report and oral presentation
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Education
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.S., Mathematics, Minor in Public Health Entrepreneurship, Minor in Arabic, Mathematics