Research Staff
Division of Public Health
Bobbie Bermudez is the Lab Manager and Study Coordinator at the Behavioral Sleep Lab. She completed her Doctorate in Critical and Sociocultural Studies in Education at the University of Oregon. Prior to that she completed her Master in Publishing at Pace University in New York and her B.A. in Communication at Richmond: American International University in London. Bobbie was born and raised in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and is passionate about Latinx recruitment and inclusion in public health studies.
Rachael is an epidemiologist for the Advancing Research on Cardiovascular Health and Endometriosis Study (ARCHES) team. She has an undergraduate degree in geography and a M.S in Public Health from the University of Utah. She performs spatial and statistical analysis for the study as well as manuscript and grant preparation. Rachael is a Salt Lake City native and enjoys spending her free time skiing, and mountain biking in Utah’s beautiful mountains.
Division of Public Health
Chris Sparks is a Clinical Research Coordinator for the Division of Public Health. He manages and coordinates activities for Dr. Baron’s Behavioral Sleep Medicine lab including data collection, analysis, and participant recruitment. He also works PRN in the Utah University Medical Centers Emergency Room as an EMT. He has a great interest in the intersection of behavioral and mental health and their impact on personal and community health at large. Chris earned his MPH with a Certificate in Global health and BS in Sociology from the University of Utah.
Division of Public Health
Marissa Taddie, MPH, MS, is a GIS Analyst for the Division of Public Health. She uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to create, summarize, and manage geospatial data. Additionally, she uses spatial and geostatistical methods to analyze, visualize, and present findings from various health outcome studies. Her hobbies include competing with her Australian Shepherd, Rye, and adventuring in the mountains and desert with her husband and other dogs.
I grew up outside of Dayton, Ohio for most of my life and continue to visit each year to see my family back in the Midwest. I graduated from The Ohio State University in 2014 with an undergraduate degree in Health Information Management and Systems (HIMS). Through a company acquisition, I relocated to Utah where I have enjoyed getting to experience Utah's adventurous outdoor culture. I graduated with my master's degree in biomedical informatics with a focus on data science a couple of years back. It was through that program that I got involved with trying to predict Alzheimer's and related dementia using administrative medical record data and what I do at the U today.
Bin is an hourly research assistant in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine where she serves as a data analyst, providing statistical analysis support for many projects in the Life Course Epidemiology Laboratory studying female endocrine and reproductive health. She is responsible for analyzing complex health-related data from population-based databases such as the Utah Population Database (UPDB), focusing on survival analysis, longitudinal data analysis in SAS and R programming. Bin graduated from the University of Utah's Master of Statistics (MSTAT) in Summer 2022 with an emphasis on Biostatistics. She loved spending time with her young daughters.