Jason Thomas

Jason is a research scientist at the Institute for Population Research (IPR) at Ohio State University and a member of the openVA Team. His work involves the analysis of verabl autopsy (VA) data, helping with VA trainings and workshops, and developing VA software, most notably:

• InterVA5
• openVA GUI
• openVA pipeline

At IPR, Jason also participates in the R Working Group, and is available to help affiliates with research (e.g., statistical software, data analysis, and using computing resources at OSU). In addition to verbal autopsy, his academic research interests include health, fertility, mortality, demographic methods, and the links between population dynamics and climate change.

Jason received his PhD in sociology from the University of Washington, where he was involved with the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) and the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) (and tried to score a few goals for the CSSS rec soccer team). He was also lucky enough to spend time as postdoctoral trainee at the University of Wisconsin's Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA).

Contact Information
email:	thomas.3912 (at) osu.edu
GitHub:	@jarathomas
work address:	060 Townshend Hall
	1885 Neil Ave Mall
	Columbus, OH 43210 USA

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