Sharon H. Green is a results-oriented population health data scientist. She has a track record of expertise in descriptive, inferential, and multivariate statistics; working with large administrative, clinical, and programmatic datasets; data visualization; regression analysis; causal inference; survey methods; and more.

She is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Demography and the Berkeley Population Center as well as a Senior Data Science Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her PhD, MPhil, and MPH from Columbia University and her BA from Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Green has over 13 years of research and project management experience. Her work applies advanced statistical methods to conduct equity-focused population health research using large datasets and sophisticated data visualizations to convey her findings. Her current and recent projects have focused on migration, remittances, racial health disparities, women’s empowerment, gender equity, health policy, and social and economic determinants of health.

This work has been published in top peer-reviewed academic journals, including New England Journal of Medicine, Social Science and Medicine – Population Health, and American Journal of Public Health. She has also published numerous numerous technical data analysis articles, data science programming tutorials in R, and opinion pieces in news outlets including the New York Times.

Beyond her research, she has taught a demography seminar for PhD students, led an HIV and STI risk reduction program for youth in the juvenile justice system, and served as the lead teaching assistant for a graduate-level public health course. Prior to her graduate training, she worked as an HIV screening and counseling program coordinator, volunteered in a harm reduction center, worked as an emergency medical technician (EMT), and as a middle school science teacher and medical technician in rural Ghana.