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Kristen Hampton

Research Assistant
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7400

Phone: 919 306 0560
e-mail: khampton@email.unc.edu

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Education

• MSPH, Environmental Sciences and Engineering. 2005. Advisor: Dr. Marc Serre.
• A.B., Engineering Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. June 2001.

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Research Interests

• Spatiotemporal Estimation and Mapping of Diseases
• Bayesian Maximum Entropy (BME) Application to Spatial Epidemiology
• Exposure Analysis and Human Health Risk Assessment
• Environmental Law and Health Policy

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Honors and Awards

• Weiss Urban Livability Fellowship (2003)
• Pforzheimer House Public Service Award (2001)
• Stride Rite Community Service Scholarship (1999-2001)

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Projects

• Spatiotemporal Analysis of Acute HIV in North Carolina, with Dr. Marc Serre (CISE), Dr. Christopher Pilcher (Dept. of Medicine), and Dr. Dionne Law (Dept. of Epidemiology).

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Publications

• Kristen Hampton (2005) Adjusting For Sampling Variability In Sparse Data: A Bayesian Maximum Entropy Approach To Disease Mapping, Master’s Thesis. Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA, 29 pp.

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Presentations

• Kristen Hampton, C.D. Pilcher, S. Fiscus, E. Foust, W. Messer, M.L. Serre, J.T. McPherson, D. Williams, R. Ashby, T. Nguyen, B. Stalzer, J. Harris, A. Cachafeiro, J.J. Eron, Jr., and P. Leone. Spatial Monitoring of Incidence: Using HIV Biomarkers to Identify Clusters, 12^th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Boston, MA, February 2005. Oral Presentation.
• C.D. Pilcher, E. Foust, K. Hampton, W. Messer, M. Serre, J.T. McPherson, D. Williams, R. Ashby, J.O. O’Dowd, T.Q. Nguyen, B. Stalzer, J. Harris, A. Cachafeiro, P.A. Leone, J.J. Eron, Jr. and S.A. Fiscus. Geomapping transmission events: using HIV biomarkers to monitor incidence, XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok, July 2004. Poster Presentation.

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