Lecturer
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Email: caobrochta@sdsu.edu
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Biography
Chelsea Obrochta is a Senior Manager, Epidemiology at Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Epidemiology, a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Epidemiology, and a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Statistics. Her areas of expertise include cancer epidemiology, health disparities, prenatal epidemiology, geospatial epidemiology, integrative data analysis, electronic health records for research, epidemiologic methods (descriptive epidemiology, epidemiologic study design, confounding, selection and information biases, epidemiologic data analysis and applied regression modeling), causal inference theory and methods (potential outcomes framework, sufficient component causes framework, directed acyclic graphs, causal mediation analysis, propensity scores, G-methods), methods for missing data (multiple imputation, quantitative bias analysis), and Monte Carlo simulation studies.