Asiya Abdi

Asiya Abdi is a graduate student at the University of Minnesota pursuing a Master of Public Health in Data Science, following a Bachelor of Applied Sciences in Health Services Management. Her academic and professional experiences have focused on healthcare administration, population health, data management, and improving systems that support health and well-being. Asiya has worked across several University of Minnesota departments, including Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, the School of Dentistry, the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation, and the Intercollegiate Athletic Department. Her interests include population health, health disparities, social determinants of health, healthcare access, and the use of data to better understand health outcomes across diverse populations. She is particularly interested in examining how social, behavioral, and structural factors influence health over time and across different stages of the life course. Through her MPH training in Data Science, she hopes to strengthen her quantitative research skills and contribute to interdisciplinary research that uses population-level data to better understand and address health inequities.