Huiting Ma
Senior Data Scientist – Analyst
Huiting completed her Master of Science in Statistics at the University of British Columbia. She then worked as a Research Analyst at the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Ontario, Canada, where she analyzed large administrative databases to inform policy making. Her research interests focus on using epidemiological, mathematical and biostatistical methods for COVID-19 and HIV/STI research.
Currently, she leads observational epidemiology studies as part of the Transitions project in Kenya and Ukraine, conducts COVID-19 mathematical modeling studies among people experiencing homelessness in the City of Toronto within Ku-gaa-gii-pimitizi-win study, and collaborates on the tPAF and Mpox projects in Kenya. Her projects include statistical and mathematical modeling, empiric estimation, and bias adjustments to parameterize and calibrate HIV transmission models in Kenya, Canada, South Africa, Kenya, and Eswatini. Huiting has participated as a first author or co-author on over 30 team papers, with selected works including:
- H Ma*, AK Chan, SD Baral, C Fahim, S Straus, B Sander, S Mishra (2023) Which curve are we flattening? The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 among economically marginalized communities in Ontario, Canada, was unchanged from wild-type to omicron. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 10(1): ofac690.
- H Ma, KC Yiu, SD Baral, C Fahim, G Moloney, D Darvin, D Landsman, AK Chan, S Straus, S Mishra (2022) COVID-19 cases among facility-staff by neighbourhood of residence and social and structural determinants: An observational study. JMIR Public Health Surveil 8(10): e34927.
- A Rao, H Ma*, G Moloney, JC Kwong, P Juni, B Sander, R Kustra, S Baral, S Mishra (2021). A disproportionate epidemic: COVID-19 cases and deaths among essential workers in Toronto, Canada. Ann Epidemiol 63: 63 – 67.
- E Roberts, H Ma*, P Bhattacharjee, HK Musyoki, P Gichangi, L Avery, J Musimbi, J Tsang, S Kaosa, J Kioko, ML Becker, S Mishra (2020). Low program access despite high burden of sexual, structural, and reproductive health vulnerabilities among young women who sell sex in Kenya. BMC Public Health 20.
- H Ma, L Wang, P Gichangi, V Mochache, G Manguro, HK Musyoki, P Bhattacharjee, F Cholette, P Sandstrom, ML Becker, S Mishra (2020). Venue-based HIV testing at sex work hotspots to reach adolescent girls and young women living with HIV: a cross-sectional study in Mombasa, Kenya. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 84(5): 470-479.
*Co-first Author
Mishra Lab 