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Sarah Lotspeich
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Biostatistics | Now: Assistant Prof @ Wake Forest Stat | Then: Postdoc UNC Biostat, PhD Vanderbilt Biostat & BS @ UF Stat | Always: Data, Donuts, & Dolly Parton
Thank you! 😊
August 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Rescheduled for Friday, September 19 so there’s still time!
July 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
🎙️: "Rerouting Our Thinking: Computationally Simple Measures Misrepresent the Food Access Landscape"

🗓️: Friday, Aug 1st, 2–3PM EST

🔗: Register online at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Rerouting Our Thinking: Computationally Simple Measures Misrepresent the Food Access Landscape. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email abo...
Abstract: Healthy foods are essential for a healthy life, but accessing healthy food can be more challenging for some people. Identifying low-access, high-risk communities for targeted interventions i...
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July 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Love these!! A *significant* addition to the post!
June 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Hi Annie! A great question. The data pull for this work was done a year or so ago, but we definitely need to be mindful of data quality and availability going forward. I’m not aware of any other global options but if you are I’d love to know about them! I honestly haven’t looked for them yet.
April 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
⚡️ Kind, knowledgable collaborators who shared my vision and amplified my energy.

🗺️ Funds to let my map-loving heart run a little wild and chase a hypothesis.

📈 High-quality public health datasets from CDC that enable research like this.

📄 The most pleasant, constructive peer-review process.
April 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Thank you so much!! It’s really my honor 🥹
March 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Read the preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05380 This project definitely took a village, and I'm immensely grateful to our collaborators for making it such a success! Also, I think this paper has my prettiest figures yet. 👩‍🎨
Overcoming data challenges to measure whole-person health in electronic health records
The allostatic load index (ALI) is a composite measure of whole-person health. Data from electronic health records (EHR) present a huge opportunity to operationalize the ALI in the learning health sys...
arxiv.org
March 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM