Research Assistant

Public Health Modelling Group

Current work and interests

Marina Berdikhanova is a Research Assistant in the Public Health Modelling group working on the JIBE (Joining Impact models of transport to spatial measure of the Built Environment) project. Her research interests include agent-based modeling to measure health impact of various interventions to help inform evidence-based policy making. She is supervised by Dr Belen Zapata-Diomedi and provides ad-hoc support to other projects at the unit. 

Background and Experience

Marina holds a Master of Science in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation from the University of Oxford where she worked on quantitatively estimating the impact of health interventions targeted at low income households in the US. She completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Minerva University where her concentrations included econometrics, causal inference and quasi-experimental research designs. She is interested in the intersection of agent-based modeling, econometrics and policy evaluation.