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Portfolio

Research and data science portfolio of Jorge Roa — applied projects in public health surveillance, cancer screening, cost-effectiveness analysis, and epidemiological modeling at Stanford School of Medicine.

Portfolio

Selected projects across teaching platforms, lab sites, civic-tech tools, and editorial work. Click any entry to read the case study.

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01 · Personal · Website

jorgeroac.com

Personal academic website — the one you are on right now.

Built with Quarto and deployed via GitHub Pages. Covers research, publications, tutorials, software, and portfolio. Features a custom dark theme, cinematic tutorial heroes, scroll-progress bar, animated footer icons, and a responsive gallery. Yes, this site is its own portfolio entry.

RoleAuthor & Developer Year2024–2025
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02 · Teaching · Course

Stanford CEA Chile 2025

A 5-day intensive course on health decision analysis and cost-effectiveness modeling for Chilean public health researchers.

Course site built with Quarto and deployed via Cloudflare Pages. Covers decision analysis, Markov models, calibration, sensitivity analysis, and discrete event simulation — each day with downloadable slides, code, and exercise solutions. Affiliated with the Department of Health Policy at Stanford School of Medicine.

RoleAuthor & Instructor Year2025
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03 · Package · Docs

ggpop Documentation

Package documentation and tutorial site for the ggpop R package.

Built with pkgdown and hosted via GitHub Pages. Function reference, vignettes, and getting-started tutorials for the ggpop population-pyramid plotting library.

RoleAuthor & Maintainer Year2024
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04 · Research · Lab

DARTH Workgroup

Decision Analysis in R for Technologies in Health — a multi-institution methods collaborative.

Public-facing site for the workgroup: team profiles, publications, training events, and the open-source R packages the collective maintains. Editorial flow that lets each lead update their own section without breaking the layout.

RoleContributor Year2024
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05 · Teaching · Community

Hertie Coding Club

A student-run R community at the Hertie School in Berlin.

Workshop schedule, tutorial archive, and a low-friction onboarding path for students new to R. Built on Quarto with a custom listings layout and a contributor-friendly publishing flow.

RoleCo-founder & Editor Year2024
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06 · Shiny App · Tool

Hp Generator

An interactive Shiny app for generating Helicobacter pylori scenarios.

Web-based generator that produces parameter sets and synthetic cohorts for downstream modelling work. Deployed on shinyapps.io with a reactive UI for exploring scenario inputs and exporting results.

RoleAuthor Year2024

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