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Data analyst returning to practice, focused on health outcomes

I combine analytical methods with health outcomes focus, recently completing a data analytics externship with ARCeH as I reenter the workforce.

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Portfolio highlights include work from my ARCeH externship, showing data cleaning, analysis, and reporting focused on health outcomes and related metrics.

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    Data Analytics, Health Outcomes Externship with ARCeH
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    Data Analytics, Health Outcomes Externship with ARCeH

    Here’s what the data says: put a pin in Bangkok. Draw a five-hour flight radius around it. You just circled half the world's population. And half of those people are kids under five, an age where survival itself isn't guaranteed. Five isn't an arbitrary number: it's the line researchers use as a proxy for a country's overall health, because almost every preventable childhood death, driven by a bad water source, poor air quality, or an infection nobody caught in time, happens before it. Clear five, and the odds of reaching adulthood jump astronomically. Don't, and the cause almost always traces back to poverty, healthcare access, environmental risk, or nutrition, something that could have been mapped, measured, and prevented in time. That's the gap this externship exists to close: turning scattered, messy public data into a specific, defensible answer about what's actually driving that risk in a given place, and pass it to the people at ARCeH who want to know about it.

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About me

I combine analytical methods with health outcomes focus, recently completing a data analytics externship with ARCeH as I reenter the workforce.

I am Josiah Blanton. I am an established data professional reentering the workforce after a career break. Recently I completed a Data Analytics, Health Outcomes externship with ARCeH, focused on health outcomes analysis and analytics workflows.

Externships

Data Analytics, Health Outcomes Externship with ARCeH

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Experience

Remote Nonprofit Consulting Externship

PwC, Paragon One, New York, NY · Jul-Aug 2023

Education

James Madison University, Harrisonburg

B.S. Economics · Class of 2025

Skills

Data analysisHealth outcomes analyticsData cleaningData reportingProject-based externship experience

✅ Verified by Extern · ⏱️ In progress

Data Analytics, Health Outcomes Externship with ARCeH

Here’s what the data says: put a pin in Bangkok. Draw a five-hour flight radius around it. You just circled half the world's population. And half of those people are kids under five, an age where survival itself isn't guaranteed. Five isn't an arbitrary number: it's the line researchers use as a proxy for a country's overall health, because almost every preventable childhood death, driven by a bad water source, poor air quality, or an infection nobody caught in time, happens before it. Clear five, and the odds of reaching adulthood jump astronomically. Don't, and the cause almost always traces back to poverty, healthcare access, environmental risk, or nutrition, something that could have been mapped, measured, and prevented in time. That's the gap this externship exists to close: turning scattered, messy public data into a specific, defensible answer about what's actually driving that risk in a given place, and pass it to the people at ARCeH who want to know about it.

Data AnalysisData VisualizationData Storytelling

Overview

The externship worked with public health and environmental datasets to identify measurable drivers of under-five mortality around Bangkok. The project scoped analytical approaches, clarified limits of correlational methods, and produced structured outputs for downstream analysis.

Data Analytics, Health Outcomes Externship with ARCeH

What I've accomplished

I translated conceptual methods into a working analysis plan, clarifying what data analysis could and could not establish and framing the methods I would apply to public health datasets.

Project breakdown

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