Firearm Safety and Youth Suicide Prevention
Research at the intersection of suicide prevention, implementation science, and health equity
Jayanth Mammen
My research interests are in the realm of global macroeconomics, monetary policy, financial economics, and investment management. Specifically, I enjoy analyzing the financial underpinnings of both macroeconomic trends as well as fundamentals investing in businesses, all in the purpose of bringing together applied mathematics, financial economics, and behavioral economics together to improve investing success. I have worked in London for a global macro hedge fund as a trading intern analyzing rates and in New York at a derivatives hedge fund researching convertible bonds and portfolio management. In terms of independent research, I am currently looking into conducting an analysis of equity swaps markets and the advantage is poses to hedge funds when taking market neutral trading strategies, and quantifying their benefits and costs in the purpose of informing manager decision making. Outside of my research, I enjoy running, rowing (casually), watching soccer, and playing poker.
- University Scholar
- Summer Intern at Capstone Investment Advisors
- Summer Intern at Capula Investment Management
Climate change, land, and the environment: International development research and evaluation
Launched in 2020, PDRI-DevLab seeks to identify solutions to challenges facing low- and middle-income countries and foster impactful international development research. As executive director of the PDRI-DevLab, Dr. Huntington’s work centers around one of the lab’s flagship themes: climate change, land, and the environment. Focused on reducing key knowledge gaps in conservation and land sectors, these projects explore human drivers of deforestation, land governance, and tenure interventions in developing nations.
Designing eLearning courses for educators supporting students with autism or data entry/analysis
We are looking for additional team members who can assist with further developing our library of eLearning courses geared towards teachers of students with autism or to help abstract and clean data on teacher use of evidence-based practices and their experiences in teaching.
Second, our team has collected data for more than a decade on teachers experiences and their use of best practices. We are in the process of abstracting and cleaning data from multiple sources to study the experiences of teachers and to examine sustainment of practices and are looking to acquire students who have experience using Python.
Understanding diet quality, food insecurity, and health in an underserved Philadelphia neighborhood
We are partnering with The Community Grocer, a local nonprofit market/grocer that aims to raise the health of the surrounding area, to assess the needs of the community prior to their launch.
Research Assistant(s) for Primate Video Data Collection
Dr. Jones is looking for 1-2 reliable, collaborative, and organized students to assist with a project examining gorilla tool use. Students will learn to identify individual gorillas housed (or previously housed) at Zoo Atlanta, and use behavioral coding software (Noldus Observer) and will collect data from video footage of gorillas using tools for a few hours a week. In addition, students will attend regular meetings with Dr. Jones, and may be asked to read related articles, and complete related tasks/assignments.
Mentorship for students interested in Reproductive Psychiatry
I have no ongoing research but am interested in mentoring motivated students curious about reproductive psychiatry and women's mental health.
Opening Pathways to Community-Led Transformation in Latinx communities
Participatory action research (PAR) carried out by Latinx community members in Norristown and UPenn students and professors to explore topics of interest in the community including post-secondary readiness, mental health, and violence.
Behavioral and Neural Markers of Psychopathology Risk in Early Childhood
KIds NeuroDevelopment (KIND) Lab is trying to understand the cognitive and emotional factors that put young children at risk for later mental health disorders
Curricular Alignment for 2- to 4-year College Transfer
There are a number of barriers that make it hard for community college students to transfer to four-year colleges. In this project, we will study one: degree requirements that are not well aligned across colleges.