Anja Zgodic

Anja Zgodic is a data scientist and public health researcher affiliated with the University of South Carolina. She holds a Master’s degree from Brown University and an undergraduate degree from Providence College, with prior experience as a Research Assistant at Rhode Island Hospital’s Injury Prevention Center and as a Data Scientist at Celmatix and Amgen. Her research focuses on spatial epidemiology, health policy, and disability statistics, particularly geographic disparities in pediatric healthcare access and prevalence of neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder and ADHD. Recent publications include county-level prevalence estimates of these conditions and novel hypothesis tests for spatial clustering in areal data. She chairs the Committee on Statistics and Disability at the American Statistical Association and collaborates with institutions including Drexel University, Wake Forest University, and Prisma Health.