Debby Oh
Data Scientist
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
School of Medicine
Debby is a data scientist at UCSF with a background in epidemiology and graphic design. Her work involves analyzing and visualizing data from the cancer registry, electronic health records, census, and other public data sources.
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She led the development of several interactive visualization websites including the UCSF Health Atlas, California Health Maps, Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry dashboard and UCSF Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center dashboard. She is part of the DREAM Lab at UCSF, which focuses on Disparities Research: Environments And Multi-omics.
Education & Training
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- PhD Epidemiology University of California, Los Angeles 06/2009
- MSc Public Health Nutrition London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 09/2002
- AB Molecular Biology Princeton University 06/2000
Interests
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- data visualization
- cancer
- health equity
- epidemiology
- social determinants of health
- population health
Websites
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- Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry (cancerregistry.ucsf.edu)
- California Health Maps (californiahealthmaps.org)
- UCSF Health Atlas (healthatlas.ucsf.edu)
- DREAM Lab (dreamlab.ucsf.edu)
- UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center dashboard (cancer.ucsf.edu)
Publications (22)
Top publication keywords:
Life Change EventsFamily RelationsResidence CharacteristicsLung NeoplasmsMelanomaColorectal NeoplasmsEpidemiologyChild Health ServicesPsychological TraumaGroundwaterChild AbuseFriendsStress, PsychologicalAntiretroviral Therapy, Highly ActiveEnvironmental Exposure
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Groundwater constituents and the incidence of kidney cancer.
Cancer 2023 Soerensen SJC, Montez-Rath ME, Cheng I, Gomez SL, Oh DL, Jackson C, Li J, Rehkopf D, Chertow GM, Langston ME, Ganesan C, Pao AC, Chung BI, Leppert JT -
Disparities in cancer incidence by rurality in California.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2023 Oh DL, Schumacher K, Yang J, Wang K, Lin K, Gomez SL, Shariff-Marco S -
Neighborhood-level COVID vaccination and booster disparities: A population-level analysis across California.
SSM - population health 2023 Oh DL, Kemper KE, Meltzer D, Canchola AJ, Bibbins-Domingo K, Lyles CR -
Factors that influence treatment decisions: A qualitative study of racially and ethnically diverse patients with low- and very-low risk prostate cancer.
Cancer medicine 2022 Guan A, Shim JK, Allen L, Kuo MC, Lau K, Loya Z, Brooks JD, Carroll PR, Cheng I, Chung BI, DeRouen MC, Frosch DL, Golden T, Leppert JT, Lichtensztajn DY, Lu Q, Oh DL, Sieh W, Wadhwa M, Gomez SL, … -
Neighborhood Factors Associated with COVID-19 Cases in California.
Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities 2022 Oh DL, Meltzer D, Wang K, Canchola AJ, DeRouen MC, McDaniels-Davidson C, Gibbons J, Carvajal-Carmona L, Nodora JN, Hill L, Gomez SL, Martinez ME
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Patient-reported supportive care needs among Asian American cancer patients.
Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer 2022 Wang K, Ma C, Li FM, Truong A, Shariff-Marco S, Chu JN, Oh DL, Allen L, Kuo MC, Wong C, Bui H, Chen J, Gomez SL, Nguyen TT, Tsoh JY -
Changes in Cancer Mortality by Race and Ethnicity Following the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act in California.
Frontiers in oncology 2022 Martinez ME, Gomez SL, Canchola AJ, Oh DL, Murphy JD, Mehtsun W, Yabroff KR, Banegas MP -
From Cancer Epidemiology to Policy and Practice: the Role of a Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Current epidemiology reports 2022 Hiatt RA, Sibley A, Venkatesh B, Cheng J, Dixit N, Fox R, Ling P, Nguyen T, Oh D, Palmer NR, Pasick RJ, Potter MB, Somsouk M, Vargas RA, Vijayaraghavan M, Ashworth A -
Integration of electronic pathology reporting with clinical trial matching for advanced prostate cancer.
Urologic oncology 2021 Borno HT, Duffy C, Zhang S, Canchola AJ, Loya Z, Golden T, Oh DL, Odisho AY, Gomez S -
Impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on 1-year survival in glioblastoma patients.
Neuro-oncology advances 2020 Moghavem N, Oh DL, Santiago-Rodríguez EJ, Tate WJ, Gomez SL, Thomas R -
Changes in Colorectal Cancer 5-Year Survival Disparities in California, 1997-2014.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2020 Oh DL, Santiago-Rodríguez EJ, Canchola AJ, Ellis L, Tao L, Gomez SL -
Adult health burden and costs in California during 2013 associated with prior adverse childhood experiences.
PloS one 2020 Miller TR, Waehrer GM, Oh DL, Purewal Boparai S, Ohlsson Walker S, Silverio Marques S, Burke Harris N -
Disease burden of adverse childhood experiences across 14 states.
PloS one 2020 Waehrer GM, Miller TR, Silverio Marques SC, Oh DL, Burke Harris N -
Breast Cancer in San Francisco: Disentangling Disparities at the Neighborhood Level.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2019 Guan A, Lichtensztajn D, Oh D, Jain J, Tao L, Hiatt RA, Gomez SL, Fejerman L, San Francisco Cancer Initiative Breast Cancer Task Force -
Review of Tools for Measuring Exposure to Adversity in Children and Adolescents.
Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners 2018 Oh DL, Jerman P, Purewal Boparai SK, Koita K, Briner S, Bucci M, Harris NB -
Ameliorating the biological impacts of childhood adversity: A review of intervention programs.
Child abuse & neglect 2018 Purewal Boparai SK, Au V, Koita K, Oh DL, Briner S, Burke Harris N, Bucci M -
Systematic review of pediatric health outcomes associated with childhood adversity.
BMC pediatrics 2018 Oh DL, Jerman P, Silvério Marques S, Koita K, Purewal Boparai SK, Burke Harris N, Bucci M -
Prevent, Screen, Heal: Collective Action to Fight the Toxic Effects of Early Life Adversity.
Academic pediatrics 2017 Burke Harris N, Silvério Marques S, Oh D, Bucci M, Cloutier M -
Toxic Stress in Children and Adolescents.
Advances in pediatrics 2016 Bucci M, Marques SS, Oh D, Harris NB -
Comorbidities in patients with irritable bowel syndrome with constipation or chronic idiopathic constipation: a review of the literature from the past decade.
Postgraduate medicine 2013 Nellesen D, Chawla A, Oh DL, Weissman T, Lavins BJ, Murray CW -
Determinants of smoking initiation among women in five European countries: a cross-sectional survey.
BMC public health 2010 Oh DL, Heck JE, Dresler C, Allwright S, Haglund M, Del Mazo SS, Kralikova E, Stucker I, Tamang E, Gritz ER, Hashibe M -
Evaluation of adherence and factors affecting adherence to combination antiretroviral therapy among White, Hispanic, and Black men in the MACS Cohort.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2009 Oh DL, Sarafian F, Silvestre A, Brown T, Jacobson L, Badri S, Detels R