Yaritza Benitez, MPH Candidate

Research Assistant, Health Data Analytics Group

In her role, Ms. Yaritza Benitez assists in different tasks of data management. These would include but are not limited to the development of data management protocols, data entry, data verification and data cleaning as a Research Assistant at the SDSU HealthLINK Center. She graduated from SDSU with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and is now working towards her master’s degree in public health with a concentration in epidemiology at SDSU School of Public Health. Her research interests lie in understanding and reducing health disparities among minorities. She has volunteered and worked at the Research Foundation since 2014 in different projects at the Institute for Behavioral and Community Health, and at South Bay Latino Research Center.

See Ms. Benitez’s profile for details on publications and projects.