Who We Are: SSDS and Its Staff

Ashley B. Kay, B.S., M.S.P.H.

Ms. Kay has recently joined SSDS, Inc. in the Natick research offices. She is involved primarily with disability and injury prevention research projects. As a project manager, she offers planning, research and writing support and she coordinates and maintains Institutional Review Board and Human Subjects activity for SSDS research grants.

Ms. Kay received her M.S.P.H. from the University of South Carolina with a concentration in cancer epidemiology. Her coursework included effective data management for public health, biometrics, cancer and infectious disease epidemiology, and nutrition and public health. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of Connecticut where she studied environmental health.

Before joining SSDS, Inc., Ms. Kay worked as a research assistant for Tufts Medical Center and coordinated two NIH-funded Internet-based case-control studies on lupus and osteoarthritis. While receiving her M.S.P.H., she worked as a graduate research assistant to interview parent-child pairs for a CDC-funded large scale community-based study focusing on ADHD in youth. Ms. Kay additionally oversaw all data entry and verification at the University of South Carolina s dietary assessment center for two NIH-funded multicenter intervention studies. In 2003, she interned within the Environmental Risk Assessment office at the Rhode Island Department of Health.

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