Team Member

Brandon Hesgrove

Principal Research Associate

National Cancer Institute (NCI) | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

What can improve physician and patient access to NCI-sponsored clinical trials?

Helping NCI’s Cancer Trials Support Unit

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

What's the best way to collect data on food a household acquires?

Implementing the FoodAPS-2 study

National Center for Health Statistics

What are the national patterns of health care delivery in hospital-based settings?

Conducting the National Hospital Care Survey (NHCS)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

What drug or drug combinations send people to the emergency department?

Administering DAWN to improve emergency department monitoring of substance abuse-related visits

National Institute of Mental Health | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

What treatments help young people in the early stages of psychosis?

Creating and coordinating the Early Psychosis Intervention Network (EPINET) National Data Coordinating Center (ENDCC) to accelerate science and improve treatment

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

How can pooling health record data improve influenza research?

Using a virtual network, VISION, to investigate the risk of flu outcomes and vaccine effectiveness

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

How can we improve blood transfusion practices?

Optimizing blood transfusion across the lifespan with REDS-IV-P

National Cancer Institute (NCI) | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

How can we reduce the burden of cancer?

Implementing the research agenda of the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics Program

U.S. Department of Education (ED)

Can machine learning techniques analyze qualitative focus group data effectively?

Using data science techniques to enhance perceptual learning