As an environmental occupational health researcher, I study the complex human-work environment using advanced epidemiological analysis. My primary research as a PhD student at the School of Public Health here at UC Berkeley involves developing quantitative metrics of shift-work and health to estimate the association between exposure to rotational shift-work and sickness absence among an aluminum manufacturers cohort. I have a strong skill set in survey design, data management, interpretation, and results communication.
Saika Belal is a PhD student in the department of Agricultural & Resource Economics (ARE) studying labor, behavioral and development economics. Her research focuses on whether preferences, beliefs and other behavioral parameters move over time and in response to scarcity, and whether these movements suggest a behavioral poverty trap.
