Prior to starting at CIPHR, Aliyah worked as a Biostatistician on preclinical animal, phase I, and phase II clinical trial studies in various therapeutic areas, where she helped design statistical analysis plans as well as analyze and validate data for drug submissions. She also worked with Boston University Biostatistics Department faculty to provide consultations for university and Boston Medical Center investigators on research design and statistical analysis for ophthalmology and digital health intervention research projects through the Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design program. Aliyah was also a summer intern at a pharmaceutical company where she worked on a project validating parts of a CRAN published R-package developed for bulk RNAseq result visualization and pathway enrichment analysis.

During her graduate program, she worked as a student data analyst on a Biostatistics Department faculty project looking at how different pathologies, such as Alzheimer’s Disease and Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), contributed to different cognitive function outcomes, such as apathy scores. Aliyah also worked under the Data and Evaluation Coordinator at a Boston based non-profit that provided underserved youth with after school soccer and enrichment programs through majority of her graduate program.

Prior to her graduate program, she worked under the Director of Research and Analysis at the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety Research to create literature reviews and complete claims data analysis on sepsis mortality measures, medical error rates in Massachusetts, and patient safety culture. Aliyah also ran mouse experiments and completed data analysis as a research assistant in neuroscience and neurobiology labs focused on exploring human behavior and genotyping through animal models.