Saswata Ray – Fellowship by Training Program Candidate

PhD Details

My doctoral research topic examines how social media influences food decisions for young adults (18-25 years) in New Zealand. Under the domain of population health informatics, this is a mixed methods study, involving qualitative interviews, analysis, survey questionnaire development and analysis of the quantitative data using SPSS.

Skills

I am skilled in understanding and handling health information relating to social media in the health context, as well as human physiology and genetics with pre and post-drug development process cycles. I have worked as a research coordinator, drug safety subject matter expert and a regulatory medical writer.   A foundation of my expertise is active involvement in projects working with different stakeholder needs to advance patient care outcomes. I am excited to be able to translate my digital healthcare solution design expertise to the industry.

She has the following skills:

• Social media expertise in a health context.
• Literature searches including meta-narrative processes
• Qualitative and quantitative data analysis and report writing while collaborating with different stakeholders
• SPSS and experience in handling patient safety databases like, ARISG. Advent
• Translating understanding and knowledge of human anatomy, physiology and genetics according to the project-specific requirements.
• Translation of scientific and technical data for diverse audiences. 
• Adult education and training 
• Gap analysis and health solution provision
• Translational research application into practice (e.g. gaming solutions)
• Leading and working as a team member

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy, Health Science (2017 June-ongoing), University of Auckland
• Completed a course: HLTHINFO 728, Principles in Health Informatics in 2018, University of Auckland
• Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Research, Bilcare Research Academy, 2009, India
• Master of Science, Zoology, 2007, University of Calcutta, India
• Bachelor of Science, Zoology, 2005, University of Calcutta, India

Profile

My 9 years of professional expertise includes working in various healthcare research projects in different roles. I commenced work in the ACC (Accident Compensation Corporation) department at Auckland District Health Board in January 2019 and seek employment that will expand my range of health/biomedical informatics expertise.

Passion for providing usable solutions drives me towards continuous improvement to learn more and deliver evidence based useful solutions. I aspire to become an integral part of commercially-driven health informatics ventures as an active translational expert to support the provision of better healthcare service outcomes to clinicians and the wider community.