Hello, I’m Linh Dinh.
Data Scientist and Epidemiologist

Linh is a health data scientist offering a blend of diverse expertise in clinical medicine and population health, study design and quantative data analysis.

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Who am I?

A data scientist: I love playing with data, working with stakeholders, and making better decisions with data.

An epidemiologist: My research interests lie in not only predictive modeling but also causal inferences with proper study designs.

A health professional: Although no longer working in clinical setting, my passion doesn't change - only shifts from the health of individual patients to that of wider populations.

About Me

Portfolio

Fitting a Bayesian compartment model

This work fits a compartment model to the U.S. tuberculosis epidemic, using a Bayesian framework and written in Julia.

Github Repo
Fitting a Bayesian compartment model

Infectious Disease Forecasting

This application allows user to forecast the trend of country-level COVID-19 pandemic (pre-loaded) or other diseases (user-uploaded data), using phenomenological growth models. The application is built with Python and Shiny Dashboards.

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Infectious Disease Forecasting
COVID-19 Summary Dashboard

COVID-19 Summary Dashboard

This application summarises key information of the COVID-19 pandemic at the country and global levels.

Launch Application

Latent Transition Analysis of Frailty in European Elderly

This project looks for underlying homogeneous subgroups of frailty and investigate the progression of frailty over time in the elderly, by using latent transition analysis (LTA). The project uses LatentGOLD for LTA analysis, and R for data wrangling, descriptive analysis and visualization.

Github Repo
Latent Transition Analysis of Frailty in European Elderly
Cross-national comparison of frailty trajectories: An age-period-cohort (APC) analysis

Cross-national comparison of frailty trajectories: An age-period-cohort (APC) analysis

This project uses mixed-effects beta regression (since the outcome (frailty index) is bounded in [0, 1]) in APC framework to investigate frailty trajectories of different birth cohorts over time, and makes comparison between 9 European countries.The project uses R for analysis.

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Excess Mortality Rates

This project analyzes excess mortality rates due to influenza in Spain. The project applies the Serfling regression (Poisson and Negative Binomial Regression with seasonal components) to estimate excess deaths accountable to influenza outbreaks. The method and code can be applied to other disease outbreaks/pandemics. R is used for this project; SAS macro is also available.

Github Repo
Excess Mortality Rates
Predicting the 2-year Risk of Fall in Community-Dwelling Older Americans

Predicting the 2-year Risk of Fall in Community-Dwelling Older Americans

This project utilize data from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) to predict the 2-year fall risk of Americans aged 65 or older, using logistic regression (LR), k-nearest neighbors (KNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), random forest (RF), multilayer perceptron (MLP) with two hidden layers of size (20, 20). This project uses R and Python for analysis.

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Apr 2022 - present
Senior Statistician
IQVIA, Canada
Sep 2020 - Mar 2022
Senior Statistician
Abbott Point of Care, Canada
Nov 2018 - present
Adjunct Lecturer
Thai Binh University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam
Aug 2016 - May 2020
Graduate Research Assistant
Georgia State University, USA
Jan 2016 - Feb 2020
Intern
World Health Organization, Switzerland

Experience

Over six (6) years of research experience in designing and implementing studies and analyzing quantitative observational and randomized trial data. Well-versed in statistical and mathematical modeling, including linear and non-linear mixed models, multivariate analyses, causal inferences, and predictive modeling.

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Education

2020 - present
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Master of Science in Analytics
2016 - 2021
Georgia State University, USA
Ph.D. in Public Health
2014 - 2015
Hebrew University of Jeruslaem, Israel
Master of Public Health (MPH)
2007 - 2013
Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam
Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS)

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Email

linpearl.dl@gmail.com

Address

Kanata, ON, Canada