Hello, I’m Alexandra (“Alex”) Gil

My Background

I am a second year MPH student, my concentration is in Biostatistics. I always think that the knowledge of the data will give you decision power, that was the main reason that made me take the decision to come back to school after so many years. I am originally from Colombia, I got my bachelor degree as a Food Engineer back in 2011. I decided to move to the Unites States in 2015 and just until 2020 in the middle of the COVID-19 Pandemic I started this journey. It amazing how you can find data about so many topics and you can transform it to create big impact over the entire population.

Experience

I work at Gwinnett Health Department as a Health Inspector, I have been working as part of the COVID-19 response team, during the last year and half. My goal is be fully involved in the data analysis for infectious diseases.

Course Goals

Through this MPH journey I have been using STATA, SAS and R. I have some personal preference; however, I really enjoy the facts that you can find tons of good resources about R just using Google. Making our life a little be easy. With MADA I have so many expectations, such as: - Improve my data analysis, specifically in infectious diseases. - Get familiar with clean data - Process data in R to get usable outcomes - Learn about machine learning

Hobbies and Fun Facts

  • Deep sea fishing has been a familiar activity that started as a curiosity and now is part of our summers.

  • As my first language is Spanish I really enjoy doing activities to improve my English proficiency such as, listen podcast or reading.