Duck-Hye Yang
Principal Research Associate
Contact
Duck-HyeYang@westat.comOverview
Duck-Hye Yang, PhD, is a Principal Research Associate for Clinical Research with 20 years of experience applying quantitative tools to support policymaking and program evaluation in the fields of healthcare, child welfare, mental health, juvenile justice, and education. In particular, she has extensive experience and skills in longitudinal analytics using secondary administrative data sources and linking data sources, such as Medicaid, Medicare, juvenile justice, education, employment/earnings, and federally funded subsidy program data.
Yang has participated as a senior data analyst in numerous projects, ranging from a randomized case-control study to a quick-turnaround consultation project. Recently, she has provided analytic support to the CDC’s Virtual Network to evaluate the burden and epidemiology of respiratory viruses. She is an experienced user of R, SAS, Stata, HLM, Mplus, and QGIS.
Education
- PhD, Public Policy, University of Illinois, Chicago
- BA, Humanities, Seoul National University