Life Expectancy in Pleural and Peritoneal Mesothelioma
R Shavelle, K Vavra-Musser, et al. (2017). "Life Expectancy in Pleural and Peritoneal Mesothelioma." Lung Cancer International.
Kate Vavra-Musser's CV
Education
- B.S. in Biology from the University of Chicago, 2009
- M.S. in Global Health and Environment from the University of California, Berkeley, 2015
- Ph.D in Population, Health, and Place from the University of Southern California, 2023
Work and Research
- January 2023 - present Postdoctoral Researcher
- University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)
- Advisor: Dr. Eric Shook
- April 2023 - present Research Fellow and Assistant Project Manager
- NSF I-GUIDE
- Supervisor: Dr. Shaowen Wang
- Collegues: Dr. Iman Haqiqi, Dr. Deanna Hence, Hodo Orok, Dr. Anand Padmanabhan, Dr. Jinwoo Park, Dr. Diana Sinton
- August 2017 - August 2023: Graduate Student
- University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
- Advisors: Dr. Jennifer Ailshire, Dr. Meredith Franklin, Dr. Eileen Crimmins, Dr. An-Min Wu
- Collegues: Dr. Lourdes Johanna Avelar-Portillo, Dr. Avery Everhart, Dr. Calley Fisk, Dr. Lois Park, Dr. Emily Serman, Rachel Wilkie, Dr. Li Yi, Dr. Xiaozhe Yin
- May 2021 - May 2023: Director of Campus Affairs
- University of Southern California Graduate Student Government (Los Angeles, CA)
- Collegues: Quinn Anex-Ries, Esthelle Ewusi Boisvert, Melisa Osborne, KJ Queen, Naomi Joyce Rodgers
- June - November 2021: Data Science Fellow at the United States Census Bureau
- Coding it Forward Civic Digital Fellowship (Washington DC and remote)
- Supervisors: Dr. Victoria Uldova
- Collegues: Dennis Linders
- May 2020 - May 2021: Research Assistant
- University of Southern California School of Gerontology (Los Angeles, CA)
- Primary Investigator: Dr. Jennifer Ailshire
- Colleagues: Sarah Mawhorter, Emily Serman, Amisha Singh, Rachel Wilkie
- January - May 2019: Research Assistant
- University of Southern California Department of Preventative Medicine (Los Angeles, CA)
- Primary Investigators: Dr. Jill Johnston, Dr. Meredith Franklin, Dr. Lara Cushing
- Colleagues: Ken Chau
- July 2015 - July 2017: Research and Consulting Assistant
- The Life Expectancy Project (San Francisco, CA)
- Supervisors: Dr. Robert Shavelle, Dr. Jordan Brooks, Dr. David Strauss
- August 2013 - December 2015: Graduate Student
- University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
- January 2012 - June 2013: Epidemiology, Endocrinology, and Wildlife Disease Fellow
- Lincoln Park Zoo (Chicago, IL)
- Supervisors: Dr. Yvonne Nadler, Dr. Rachel Santymire, Lisa Faust
Teaching (University Level)
- California State University, Long Beach
- Fall 2022: Geographic Information Science for Health
- Spring 2023: Geographic Information Science for Health
- University of Southern California
- Spring 2020 and Fall 2018: The Water Planet (teaching assistant and laboratory instructor)
- Fall 2019: Sustinability Science in the City (teaching assistant and laboratory instructor)
- University of California, Berkeley
- Spring 2015: Brain, Mind, and Behavior (teaching assistant and discussion instructor)
- Fall 2014: Medical Ethnobotany (laboratory and field school instructor)
- Spring 2014: Introduction to Biology (teaching assistant and discussion instructor)
Fellowships
- 2021 Data Science Fellow at the United States Census Bureau
- Equity + Ethics in Data Workshop, February 2021 Cohort
- Los Angeles Tech4Good
- Scholarship Recepient
- Workshop Leads: Rachel Whaley and Karen Borchgrevink
- 2021 Technology Education Grant Recepient
- Serenze Global and Pluralsight
- DS4A Fellow, 2020-2021 Cohort
- Correlation-One Data Science for All (DS4A) Empowerment Program
- recognized as a Distinguished Scholar within the 2020-2021 cohort
- Advisors: Matthew Finney, Manjula Mishra
- Colleagues: Emily Flores, Mikio Harman, Eugenia Miller, Vitor Olusajo
- 2019 AAG-UCGIS Summer School Fellow
- Program Topic: Reproducible Problem Solving with CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science
- The American Association of Geographiers (AAG) and The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)
- Advisors: Alberto Giordano, Diana Sinton
Publications
Life Expectancy in Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Cancer
J Brooks, R Shavelle, K Vavra-Musser, et al. (2019). "Life Expectancy in Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Cancer." Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology. 43(1):88-97.
Effects of Exposure to Flaring from Unconventional Oil Wells on Adverse Birth Outcomes
L Cushing, K Vavra-Musser, et al. (2019). "Effects of Exposure to Flaring from Unconventional Oil Wells on Adverse Birth Outcomes." Environmental Epidemiology. 3(86).
Flaring from Unconventional Oil and Gas Development and Birth Outcomes in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas
L Cushing, K Vavra-Musser, K Chau et al. (2020). "Flaring from Unconventional Oil and Gas Development and Birth Outcomes in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas." Environmental Health Perspectives. 128(7).
Involvement and Leadership with Professional Organizations
- University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS): 2017 - present
- Chair of Communications: February 2021 - present
- Communications Committee: December 2019 - present
- AAG-UCGIS 2019 Summer Fellow
- American Association of Geographers (AAG): 2017 - present
- Speciality Groups: Climate, Digital Geographies, Environmental Perception & Behavioral Geography, Geographic Information Science and Systems, Human Dimensions of Global Change, Remote Sensing, Rural Geography, Spatial Analysis & Modeling
- Affility Groups: Graduate Students, Mental Health in the Academy, Public/Private Sector
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): 2019 - present
- Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (ACM-SIGSPATIAL): 2019 - present
- North American Cartographic Information Society (NAICS): 2020 - present
- Society for Conservation Geographical Information Science (SCGIS): 2018 - present
- Spatial Decision Support Consortium (SDS): March 2021 - present
- Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA): 2017 - present
- Mentor: February - July 2021
- Women in Analytics (WIA): 2020 - present
- Women in Data (WID): 2020 - present
- Women in Geographical Information Science (WIG): 2018 - present
- Women in Geospatial (WIG+): 2020 - present
- Mentorship Program Team: October 2020 - October 2021
- Mentor: October 2021 - October 2021
Service and Leadership at the University of Southern California
- Graduate Student Government (GSG): 2020 - present
- Director of Campus Affiars: May 2021 - present
- Senator for Dornsife College Social Sciences graudate programs: August 2020 - August 2021
- Childcare and Emergency Funding Review Committee: August 2020 - present
- Graduate Student Payroll Working Group: December 2020 - present
- Sustainability Committee: August 2020 - May 2021
- 2020-2021 Senator of the Year
- Dornsife Graduate Student Association (DGSA): 2020 - 2022
- Population, Health, and Place Program Representative: January 2020 - January 2022
- Graduate Student Worker Organizing Committee (GSWOC): 2019 - 2022
- Research Committee: January 2019 - December 2020
- Population, Health, and Place Doctoral Student Association (PHPDSA): 2018 - 2022
- Co-Founder August 2018
- Coordinator: August 2018 - January 2022
- Spatial Sciences Institute Doctoral Student Liaison: August 2018 - January 2022
- DGSA Population, Health, and Place Program Representative: January 2020 - January 2022