The Division of Global Public Health

Daniela Abramovitz, MSc, is a senior statistician in the Division of Global Public Health.  She received her BSc in mathematics from University of California, San Diego and her MSc in biostatistics from San Diego State University.  She has over 10 years of statistical work experience, including working as a research associate for the Biostatistics Department at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and as a statistician for the General Research Center at University of California San Diego and for the Veterans Medical Research Foundation in La Jolla, CA.

Ms. Abramovitz provides statistical advice on study design and data analyses to faculty and doctoral/post-doctoral students throughout the division, assists with grants preparation (i.e. conducts power analyses and sample size determination and writes statistical analysis plans), creates and manages databases, performs data analysis, presents findings (i.e. prepares narratives, figures, graphs, tables), and contributes to abstract and manuscript preparation.  

Her current interests include respondent driven sampling, mixed methods design and analyses, multilevel modeling, and survival analyses.

Selected Publications:

Abramovitz D, Volz E, Patterson TL, Strathdee SA, and Frost SDW.  Using Respondent Driven Sampling in a Hidden Population at Risk of HIV Infection: Who do HIV-positive recruiters recruit.  Sex Transm Dis (in press).

Strathdee SA,  Mausbach B, Lozada R, Staines-Orozco H, Semple SJ, Abramovitz D, Fraga-Vallejo M, Orozovich P, de la Torre A, Amaro H, Martinez G,  Magis-Rodríguez C, Patterson TL.   Predictors of sexual risk reduction among Mexican female sex workers enrolled in a behavioral intervention study. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (in press).

Strathdee, S.A., Lozada, R., Pollini, R.A., Brouwer, K.C., Mantsios, A., Abramovitz, D.A., Rhodes, T., Latkin, C.A., Loza, O., Alvelais, J., Magis-Rodriguez, C., & Patterson, T.L. 2008. Individual, social, and environmental influences associated with HIV infection among injection drug users in Tijuana, Mexico. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 47, (3) 369-376.