About Rhowena Vespa

Education/Work Background

Pharmacist at CVS Specialty  MS Data Analytics and Computational Social Science student at UMass Amherst

R experience

A year of R experience earned through DACSS courses

Research interests

Research will focus on health equity issues,  narrowing health disparity gaps and  understanding behavior to improve health outcomes.

Hometown

Born and raised in the Philippines but now  considers Brookline, MA as my hometown.

Hobbies

I spend my time gardening in the spring, summer and fall.  Winters are reserved for experimenting on vegan soup recipes.

Fun fact

I have been to too many Comic con and anime conventions, including San Diego Comic Con.  You know this means I have a good amount of pictures with celebrities!  The most recent ones are with Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and SHIELD’s Ming-Na Wen. =======