Busra joined the Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center (GRC) as a Senior Researcher in May 2023. She is currently contributing to several quality improvement initiatives, including QI Hub, Healthy Mom, Healthy Family, Focus on ME, and Preconception Health 101. In her role, Busra leverages her expertise in quantitative research and data analysis to enhance healthcare outcomes and practices.
Before joining the GRC, Busra worked as a Graduate Research Associate at The Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy, and as a Graduate Teaching Associate for Introduction to Educational Statistics at The Ohio State University. During this time, she developed a robust skill set in data management, statistical methods, and research design, which she now applies to healthcare research. She is dedicated to ensuring high-quality data management practices and maintaining statistical conclusion validity, which are critical for informing and guiding social science practices and policies.
Busra holds a BSc in Science Education and an MA in Primary Education from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. She earned her PhD in Quantitative Research, Evaluation, and Measurement from The Ohio State University, with dissertation research focusing on applications of planned missing data designs in latent change score models.