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Mark Chaffin

Master of Science candidate, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (as of August 2016)

Former position at CEP
Senior Research Analyst

Length of tenure at CEP
2 years

What are you up to these days?
I am pursuing a Master of Science in Computational Biology and Quantitative Genetics from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

How did your time at CEP prepare you for what you’re doing now?
CEP taught me valuable data management and quality control skills. My current position requires dealing with enormous amounts of data, and attention to detail is very important. Additionally, CEP introduced me to some more advanced modeling techniques, such as mixed models, and provided the opportunity to develop my skills in R, which I use regularly in my degree program.

What do you miss most about working at CEP?
The close collaborations among my team.

What advice would you give someone about working at CEP?
Take advantage of the opportunity to develop skills related to your work. For me, that was learning new statistical techniques and statistical software. These skills become very transferrable to other roles you may have later on.

Describe your perfect Sunday
Over the summer, probably going for a long day hike up in the White Mountains with friends.

Recent Blogs

Funders, I Want to Tell You About My Donkeys
Funders, I Want to Tell You About My Donkeys

This post originally appeared on the author’s Medium page. Read it here and find out more about the Full Frame Initiative here. Anyone who has known me for more than a minute knows I love donkeys so much that I have five of them. Real live donkeys. They’re fabulous....

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Standing Strong for DEI
Standing Strong for DEI

The remarkable and rapid capitulation of many corporations to the new administration’s anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) crusade is not just craven, it’s likely to impede the performance (and profitability) of these companies. Late last week, Target became...

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