Since receiving her Master’s in biostatistics in 2017, Natalie has continued to apply her quantitative skills as a full-time research analyst. For the past five years, she has been fortunate enough to work with Dr. Christina Mair, which has allowed for a wide range of projects and collaborations, as evidenced by some of my recent publications. Her research interests, broadly, relate both to the methodological and the substantive aspects of spatio-temporal determinants of substance use and psychiatric epidemiology. After completing her PhD in epidemiology under the guidance of Drs. Maria Brooks, Paul Gruenewald, and Christina Mair, she aspires to work as a quantitative research scientist, continuing to ask and (attempting to) answer emergent questions related to her research interests. 

Select presentations

• Sumetsky N, Mair C, Gruenewald PJ, Zheng K, Grefenstette JJ. Accelerating youth risks for alcohol problems: Ecological impacts of drinking opportunities. Presented at: Research Society on Alcoholism Annual Meeting; 2019 June; Minneapolis, MN. 

• Sumetsky N, Gruenewald PJ, Ponicki WR, Mair C. Multiscale analyses of alcohol outlets and crime reports in Oakland, CA. Presented at: Alcohol Policy Conference 18; 2018 April; Washington, DC.

Select publications 

• Sumetsky N, Gruenewald PJ, Lipperman-Kreda S, Lee JP, Mair C. Alcohol use frequencies and associated problems across drinking contexts. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 2022. In press.

• Sumetsky N, Frankeberger J, Coulter RWS, Friedman MR, Burke JG, Mair C. Mental health and alcohol use during and before the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. Behavioral Medicine 2022. doi: 10.1080/08964289.2021.2015278

• Sumetsky N, Mair C, Wheeler-Martin K, Cerda M, Waller LA, Ponicki WR, Gruenewald PJ. Predicting the Future Course of Opioid Overdose Mortality: An Example from Two US States. Epidemiology 2021, 32(1):61-69. doi:10.1097/EDE.0000000000001264

• Sumetsky N, Mair C, Anderson S, Gruenewald PJ. A Spatial Partial Differential Equation Approach to Addressing Unit Misalignments in Bayesian Poisson Space-Time Models. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology 2020, 33. doi:10.1016/j.sste.2020.100337

• Sumetsky N, Burke JG, Mair C. Relationships Between Opioid- Related Hospitalizations and Intimate Partner Violence and Child Maltreatment Hospitalizations in Pennsylvania Across Space and Time. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 2020. doi:10.1177/0886260520948525

• Sumetsky N, Burke JG, Mair C. Opioid-related diagnoses and HIV, HCV, and mental disorders: Using Pennsylvania hospitalization data to assess community-level relationships over space and time. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2019, 73(10):935-940. doi:10.1136/jech-2019-212551