Xin Chen Mila, a Research Assistant from OHRP, joined the One Health Poultry Hub in December 2022. She is the fifth researcher from OHRP to join the hub after Prof. Dirk U. Pfeiffer (co-PI), Dr. Anne Conan, Dr. Lorraine Chapot and Dr. Sara Sequeira. In the hub, Mila is involved in epidemiological research, supporting data collection, data cleaning, data analytics, and creating R markdown reports by combing ODK and R.
“Working on this project [One Health Poultry Hub] allows me to apply data analytics and programming to real-work research projects, which makes me feel so excited! In addition, I realized that dealing with data should be done with care, responsibility, and persistence, sticking with one thing, day in and day out, and doing my best to make things happen.”, Mila said.
Mila has a multidisciplinary background in veterinary medicine and computer science and is interested in how information technologies empower epidemiological studies to prevent and control emerging infectious and zoonotic diseases. Mila works closely with Dr. Anne Conan (Research Associate Professor) on different projects from the centre.