NISTARA RANDHAWA
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2019 Ph.D. Epidemiology Davis, USA University of California, Davis Dissertation: Through the Looking-glass: Into the Movements of Bats, Hu- mans, and Outbreaks 2013 M.P.V.M Davis, USA University of California, Davis Thesis: Organochlorines in the Marine Environment – Temporal Trends in California Sea Lions and Association with Cancer and Infectious Disease 2008 M.V.Sc. (Veterinary Surgery & Radiology) Palampur, India CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University Thesis: Clinical Evaluation of Propofol and Ketamine as Induction Agents in Midazolam - Fentanyl Premedicated and Halothane Anaesthetized Dogs 2006 B.V.Sc. (Veterinary Science) Palampur, India CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University 2019 Present Wildlife Health Center, One Health Institute, UC Davis Davis, USA Postdoctoral Scholar 2012 2019 One Health Institute, UC Davis Davis, USA Graduate Research Assistant Research: tracking the movements of bats in Tanzania, spatial analyses of infectious agents in bats, and the transmission of diseases in networks created using satellite imagery and GIS data. 2016 2020 UC Davis Davis, USA Aliate, Datalab Afliate of a community of researchers and students from multiple do- mains across campus, who are interested in data science and informatics. Also provided ofce hours on R, RStudio, GIS, and data visualization in 2018. CONTACT INFO nistara_r github.com/nistara nistara.net [email protected] SKILLS Infectious disease modeling Network analysis Movement ecology GIS and spatial analysis Programming: R, bash, SQL, GRASS GIS Cloud computing with AWS Video editing with Adobe Pre- miere Pro This resume was made with the R package pagedown. Last updated on 2020-11-30. NISTARA RANDHAWA EDUCATION WORK AND EXPERIENCE | | |
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2019Ph.D. Epidemiology Davis, USAUniversity of California, Davis
Dissertation: Through the Looking-glass: Into the Movements of Bats, Hu-mans, and Outbreaks
2013M.P.V.M Davis, USAUniversity of California, Davis
Thesis: Organochlorines in the Marine Environment – Temporal Trends inCalifornia Sea Lions and Association with Cancer and Infectious Disease
2008M.V.Sc. (Veterinary Surgery & Radiology) Palampur, IndiaCSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University
Thesis: Clinical Evaluation of Propofol and Ketamine as Induction Agentsin Midazolam - Fentanyl Premedicated and Halothane AnaesthetizedDogs
2006B.V.Sc. (Veterinary Science) Palampur, IndiaCSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University
2019
PresentWildlife Health Center, One Health Institute, UC Davis Davis, USAPostdoctoral Scholar
2012
2019One Health Institute, UC Davis Davis, USAGraduate Research Assistant
Research: tracking the movements of bats in Tanzania, spatial analyses ofinfectious agents in bats, and the transmission of diseases in networkscreated using satellite imagery and GIS data.
2016
2020UC Davis Davis, USAA�liate, Datalab
Af�liate of a community of researchers and students from multiple do-mains across campus, who are interested in data science and informatics.Also provided of�ce hours on R, RStudio, GIS, and data visualization in2018.
CONTACT INFO nistara_r
github.com/nistara
nistara.net
SKILLSInfectious disease modelingNetwork analysisMovement ecologyGIS and spatial analysisProgramming: R, bash, SQL,GRASS GISCloud computing with AWSVideo editing with Adobe Pre-miere Pro
This resume was made with theR package pagedown.
Last updated on 2020-11-30.
NISTARA RANDHAWA
EDUCATION
WORK AND EXPERIENCE
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2016
2020RECONMember, R Epidemics Consortium
Contributed to the development of open source analytics tools for inform-ing the response to disease outbreaks, using the R software.
2019The CarpentriesCerti�ed software and data carpentry instructor
2016UC Berkeley Berkeley, USAHackout 3, hackathon for emergency outbreak response
As a participant of the hackathon, I helped develop an R package to as-sist with outbreak response.
2015UC Davis Davis, USAGraduate student representative, International Programs Committee
2015
San Francisco, USA
Student committee member, 22st Biennial Conference on the Biology ofMarine Mammals
2014One Health Institute Davis, USAGraphic designer, “Outbreak Response” section for PREDICT report
2014University of California Davis, USAUC Global Health Day student representative
2012UC Davis and Washington State UniversityAnimal Health Policy Program
Helped organize this program, whose theme was “Local Policies at the In-tersection of Environment, Animal Agriculture, and Food Security”, with afocus on Climate Change.
2009-2010
Royal Canine Pet Clinic Chandigarh, IndiaAssistant Veterinary Surgeon
2009Indian Youth Climate Network New Delhi, IndiaMember, Agents of Change Program
Represented IYCN at the United Nations Framework Convention on Cli-mate Change, Copenhagen.
2020
One Health Outlook
Spillover of ebolaviruses into people in eastern Democratic Republic ofCongo prior to the 2018 Ebola virus disease outbreak
Goldstein T, Belaganahalli MN, Syaluha EK et al.
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PUBLICATIONS
2020
One Health Outlook
Fruit bats in �ight: a look into the movements of the ecologically impor-tant Eidolon helvum in Tanzania
Randhawa N, Bird BH, VanWormer E, Sijali Z, Kilonzo C, Msigwa A, Ekiri AB,Samson A, Epstein JH, Wolking DJ, Smith WA, Martínez-López BM,Kazwala R, Mazet JA
2018
F1000Research
epicontacts: Handling, visualisation and analysis of epidemiologicalcontacts
Nagraj VP, Randhawa N, Campbell F, Crellen T, Sudre B, Jombart T
2015
One Health
Sentinel California sea lions provide insight into legacy organochlorineexposure trends and their association with cancer and infectiousdisease.
Randhawa N, Gulland F, Ylitalo GM, DeLong R, Mazet JA
2020R packageSEEDNet
2018
R packageepicontacts
Nagraj VP, Randhawa N, Campbell F, Crellen T, Sudre B, Jombart T
2017R packageeidithR
20185th International One Health Conference plenary session on Chang-ing the Future of Epidemic Response & Pandemic Prevention
Accurately Forecasting Viral Spread
2019
Wildlife Disease Association
Fruit bats in �ight: how they inform conservation and disease sur-veillance in Tanzania
2019
Geovet
Using �ne-scale satellite imagery and GIS data to help predict diseasespread
SOFTWARE
INVITED SPEAKER
SELECTED POSTERS AND PRESENTATIONS
2018
5th International One Health Conference
Where do bats go? Tracking bats sheds light on virus exposure pathwaysand guides surveillance
20185th International One Health ConferenceUsing satellite imagery and GIS data to help predict disease spread
2018
3rd International Conference on One Medicine One Science
Fine scale infectious disease model enabled by satellite imagery and GISdata: application to pandemic in�uenza in Rwanda
2015
4th International Symposium of Veterinary Epidemiology andEconomics
Organochlorines in California sea lions - temporal trends and associa-tions with cancer and infectious disease
2014
Wildlife Disease Association
Organochlorines In California Sea Lions: Temporal Trends And Associa-tion With Cancer And Infectious Disease
2008
32nd Annual Congress of Indian Society for Veterinary Surgery andNational Symposium
Clinical Evaluation of Propofol and Ketamine as Induction Agents in Mi-dazolam – Fentanyl Premedicated and Halothane Anaesthetized Dogs
200731st Annual Congress of Indian Society for Veterinary Surgery and Na-tional Symposium
Incidence and Prevalence of Dental A�ections in Canines
2013
2020UC DavisMPM 210 E�ectively illustrating risk and science
Taught graduate students how to effectively communicate their work.
2019UC DavisData Carpentry Workshop
Assisted with the data carpentry workshop on fundamental data skillsneeded to conduct research.
2019UC DavisMPM 210 Animal Health Policy, Leadership, and Risk Communication
Organized and facilitated the execution of this course while the originalcourse instructor was on sabbatical.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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2019UC DavisVET 401 One Health Activity
Faciliated a PBL experience on a One Health topic for veterinary students.
2019UC DavisPREDICT Data Conference
Taught participants from 12 countries the fundamentals of data projectmanagement, R programming, and GIS. Some of the teaching material isavailable here.
2018Datalab#maptimeDavis – Interactive Maps with R
Visual data exploration and real time map based interaction with spatialdata in R.
2016UC DavisVET 413 One Health Activity
Faciliated a PBL experience on a One Health topic for veterinary students.
2019Wildlife Disease Association Photo ContestWildlife and people’s choice
2015 ISVEE Bursary award
2015 AVEPM travel grant
2014 Runner-up, Wildlife Disease Association Best Student Poster
2014 UC Global Health Day video challenge – Winner
2012
2013
NOAA OHHI (Oceans and Human Health Initiative) trainee grant
2012 MPVM research scholarship
2012 UC Davis - University of Minnesota Public Policy course award
2008 CSKHPKV Agricultural University Gold medal for academic excellence
AWARDS AND GRANTS
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2008Annual Conference of the Indian Society for Veterinary SurgeryBest presentation award (Anesthesiology)
2017UC Davis and Morogoro, TanzaniaTracking bats in Tanzania
A short preview of my bat tracking research experience.
2016UC DavisHummingbird Health and Conservation program
Filmed and edited a video on the Hummingbird Health and ConservationProgram for EVOTIS, the UC Davis One Health Institute’s onlinepublication.
2014UC Global Health DayGlobal Health - What inspires me
Video based on my experiences at the UN Climate Change Conference inCopenhagen (2009). It won the UC Global Health Day video challenge.
2014
2015UC DavisOne Health Immersion Workshop video for veterinary students
This video helped set up the workshop scenario for the students by intro-ducing them to spelunking.
FILMMAKING EXPERIENCE
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