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About

Public health researcher working across nutrition, tobacco, and health policy. Most of what you'll find here is replication code for peer-reviewed studies: randomized trials, national survey epidemiology, evidence synthesis, and cost analyses.

What's in my repos

Randomized trials and experiments

swaps (Stata). Replication pipeline for a food-swap RCT. Participant characteristics, primary treatment effects, moderation analyses, Bonferroni-Holm corrected p-values, effects by food group, and ClinicalTrials.gov reporting exports.
Paper: Grummon et al., PLOS Medicine (2026)

social_media_wl (Stata). Social media warning label trial. Mixed-effects models of perceived message effectiveness and awareness by warning topic, carryover sensitivity, moderator analyses, and CONSORT counts, plus a secondary study comparing AI-generated with human-selected priority messages.
Paper: Grummon et al., JAMA Health Forum (2026)

AI_smwl (Stata, Python). Two experiments testing large language models for public health messaging: whether LLM-refined social media warnings are rated as more effective by human participants than researcher-generated ones, and whether LLM-powered AI personas reproduce human participants' responses to warnings. Mixed-effects models of perceived message effectiveness and Cohen's d decomposition.

Survey epidemiology (BRFSS)

Smoking-Prevalence-Analysis-2018-2024 (SAS, Stata, Python). Urban-rural differences in adult smoking prevalence, 2018-2024. Survey-weighted logistic and GEE models for all 50 states plus nationwide, simple slopes for significant year-by-rurality interactions, predicted probability panels, and choropleth maps.
Preprint: Ulm et al., medRxiv (2026)

mastersthesis (Python). Master's thesis analysis of pooled BRFSS data: weighted descriptive statistics and state-level odds ratio choropleth maps.

Survey research (policy support)

snap-restrictions-support (Stata, Python). Pre-registered analysis of a national household panel survey on support for restricting soda and candy from SNAP purchases. Regression models of psychological factors (perceived health risk, overconsumption, feeling judged, perceived paternalism), SNAP recipient status, and their interactions.

Evidence synthesis

unhealthy-food-umbrella (R, Python). Umbrella review of ultra-processed foods and health outcomes. Sensitivity analyses, heterogeneity assessment, and publication-ready forest plots.
Paper: Ulm et al., Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health (2026)

Health economics

Treatment_Survivorship_Costing_CRC (Python). Colorectal cancer treatment and survivorship cost estimation, with weighted averages by age group, race, sex, and stage.

Research tools

opportunity-scout (Python, Claude agents). Weekly scout for grants, industry funding, scholarships, and jobs a doctoral student is eligible for. Reads the Grants.gov, NIH, NSF, and employer job-board databases directly, scores federal grants with a no-AWS copy of the GROW grant matcher from AWS and UNC, sends search agents only to sources with no database, and has an independent verifier check nine eligibility rules on each official page.

Methods and tools

Survey-weighted regression, mixed-effects models, GEE and cluster-robust inference, moderation and subgroup analysis, multiple-comparison correction, meta-analysis and heterogeneity assessment, cost estimation, and geospatial visualization.

Stata, SAS, R, and Python (pandas, geopandas, matplotlib, plotly).

Notes on data

These repositories hold analytic code. Restricted, licensed, or oversized inputs such as raw survey exports, licensed product catalogs, and BRFSS or ACS source files are intentionally excluded; each README documents where to obtain them and how to rebuild the analytic files.

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  1. urban-rural-smoking-brfss urban-rural-smoking-brfss Public

    Analysis code and data for state-level trends in urban-rural differences in cigarette smoking, BRFSS 2018-2025 (PLOS ONE, under review)

    Python 1

  2. social_media_wl social_media_wl Public

    Social media warning label Stata code.

    Stata

  3. swaps swaps Public

    Replication file for the swaps RCT study.

    Stata

  4. Treatment_Survivorship_Costing_CRC Treatment_Survivorship_Costing_CRC Public

  5. unhealthy-food-umbrella unhealthy-food-umbrella Public

    Code for my unhealthy food umbrella review.

    R