Spotlight on 🔦Selina Nath🔦
- Info DSxHE
- Jan 21
- 2 min read
Selina Nath Senior Research Fellow, UCL
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What does your job actually entail?
I have the best job in the world. I work with data and have always worked on projects that I am passionate about. My day-to-day job includes data cleaning / problem solving, analysis and write-up. My hours are flexible, which is just as well because project is always on my mind.
When not at work, you can be found...
Being a mother, or Yogi under a tree (trying anyways)
Why did you join the DSxHE community?
To get involved in data science for children and families.
What’s your interest in data science and/or health equity?
Maternal and child health, statistics, and health equity.
What’s a topic in data science/health equity that you know/care a lot about - why is it important/interesting, tell us about it!
Maternal mental health
What was your last impulse buy?
Toys for my daughter (its okay, because its not for me)
What are the least-likely three words someone would use to describe you?
Quiet, unenthusiastic, lazy.
What object do you misplace or lose the most?
My phone, and my brain
What is your go-to lazy dinner?
Take-away
What item is worth spending more money on?
The Spa
What is the last craft you made?
Knitting baby shoes
Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
“Still alive”
What is the best advice you ever received?
Fear is not real
What do you think is the key to living a good life?
Connection with people
How do you cope with hardship?
Get moving, and know that it’s probably not that important after all
Right now, what is the most pivotal relationship in your life?
My daughter - she is everything I wish I had the guts to be!
What is the kindest thing someone ever did for you?
When I was pregnant, I was trying to buy a drink. I forgot my wallet and my phone died. The person in the cafe said I could have the drink for free.
What is a lesson that took you a long time to learn?
Other peoples opinion of me is a reflection of them, rather than me.
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