Paulina Del Mundo Del Fierro, MD, MPH
Physician · Biostatistics Consultant · Clinical Data Scientist · Public Health Researcher
I’m a physician with an MPH in Epidemiology & Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins, currently consulting in biostatistics and study design through Informedica LLC, alongside my work as a Clinical Data Scientist at the Institute for Health Metrics. My work sits at the intersection of clinical practice, evidence synthesis, and real-world data — designing RWE studies, building predictive models on EHR and claims, and translating findings for pharma, biotech, and federal-grant audiences. Reachable at pauline@informedica.llc · +1 (609) 509-2411 · LinkedIn · Audubon, New Jersey.
Encounters analyzed 24.6M+
Community hospitals 50+
First-author papers 2
MPH GPA, Hopkins 3.90
Experience
Founder & Principal Biostatistics Consultant
- Independent biostatistics and methods consulting for medical and health-services research: study design, sample-size justification, causal inference for observational and policy data, sensitivity and robustness analysis, and methods writing for manuscripts, grants, and regulatory submissions.
- Serving pharma, biotech, academic researchers, and nonprofits whose work has to hold up under peer review, an IRB, or a regulator.
Clinical Data Scientist
- Processed and analyzed real-world data — EMR, claims, and SDoH measures across 24.6M+ patient encounters and 50+ community hospitals — using ICD-10, RxNorm, LOINC, and SNOMED-CT for cleaning, anonymization, classification, imputation, analysis, visualization, and interactive dashboards.
- Built R and Python ML pipelines for predictive modeling of mortality and readmission risk, comorbidity analysis, LLM-based SDoH analysis, and geocoding for spatial analysis of access patterns.
- Merged ACS and CDC data with clinical records into composite SDoH indices via PCA, enriching predictive models with community-level variables.
- Benchmarked a proprietary EHR database against the National Inpatient Sample to assess representativeness; performed k-means clustering and regression-based imputation to preserve dataset integrity.
- Supported 5+ pharma, biotech, and research consulting clients via cohort analyses; authored NIH and AHRQ grant proposals for health-equity projects.
Graduate Research Data Analyst
- Evaluated USAID-funded ReachHealth Philippines and Philippine DOH COVID-19 campaigns using Stata and Python regression analyses within public-health communication frameworks to inform campaign strategy.
Evidence Review Expert
- Conducted a systematic review establishing DOH-supported oncology CPGs for Wilms tumor; achieved expert consensus on loss-of-heterozygosity 1p/16q testing, influencing national chemotherapy protocols and insurer coverage discussions.
Advocacy Officer & Policy Consultant
- Secured legislative integration of Medical Certification of Cause of Death (MCCOD) into national medical education standards, with endorsements from APMC, PRC, and CHED — improving mortality data accuracy across 30 medical schools.
- Designed a DOH-funded stakeholder engagement program reaching 108 deans and faculty nationwide; published PRECEDE-PROCEED research on implementation outcomes.
- Developed telemedicine policy recommendations and organized an FMEA workshop producing Tableau sentiment dashboards on national telehealth implementation risks.
Medical Consultant & Writer
- Cross-border health-system analysis across the Philippines, Singapore, India, and Indonesia; developed CME content for the Philippine Pediatric Society and Philippine College of Surgeons.
Medical Editor
- Elevated medical writing across clinical, pharmaceutical, and molecular-medicine domains, ensuring publishable quality in international peer-reviewed journals.
Occupational Medicine Physician
- Supervised occupational health for 300 employees; implemented COVID-19 safety protocols in partnership with OSH and HR teams.
General Practice Locum Tenens · Consultant
Post-Graduate Medical Intern
- Diagnosed and treated patients across high-volume medical, surgical, obstetric, and pediatric inpatient, outpatient, emergency, and community settings.
Research Assistant
Education
Master of Public Health — Epidemiology & Biostatistics
- GPA 3.90; Public Health Economics Graduate Certificate.
- Capstone: Factors Associated with the Retention of Medical Graduates in Clinical Practice in the Philippines — novel social-media survey methods, statistical sampling design, regression model refinement, IRB approval.
- Modeled ACS, HRSA, and CDC data with negative-binomial regression on healthcare-worker shortage and ICD-10 mortality rates; ordinal logistic regression on MEPS data; Markov models for digital-health ICERs.
Doctor of Medicine
- GPA 3.03; Top 13.
- First place, Annual Clinico-Pathologic Conference diagnostic competition, 2016.
- 5th place poster, Predictors of Newborn Screening Utilization in Quezon City.
BS in Health Sciences
- GPA 3.24; full-tuition college scholarship; dean’s list 2008–2010.
Licensure
- United States Medical Licensure Examinations — Steps 1, 2, and 3.
- Philippine Physician Licensure Exam — 84.92nd percentile.
Publications & presentations
Conference presentations
- Borda H, Zolotor A, Del Mundo P. Characterizing Cardiovascular Disease Patients in US Community Hospitals Using insightsDB. Poster, ISPOR 2024, Atlanta, GA.
Contract speaking engagements
- Public Health and Education Data Analytics Online Course. RTI International / USAID. May–Sep 2022.
- International & Country-Specific Strategies in eHealth & Public Health Informatics. Riverside College. Apr 2022.
- COVID-19 Updates. White Cloak Technologies Inc. May 2021.
- Digital Healthcare in the Philippines: Are We Ready? CareGo Vaccination Booking Platform. Sep 2020.
Leadership & service
Technical & Policy Committee Member
Led the Digital Health Technical Working Group, increasing peer involvement in digital-health advancements and fostering cross-organization collaboration.
Communications & Collaborations Committee Co-Lead
Co-led a WHO initiative to develop a global digital-health and AI capacity-building framework for course creators, employers, and learners.
Co-Founder & President, Think Tank ASMPH
Founded the first health-research student organization at ASMPH; won Best Organization Project for the High5Life Forum, connecting NGO and government health experts to 150+ attendees.
Professional memberships
- International Society for Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research — Real-World Evidence Special Interest Group
- American Medical Informatics Association
- Philippine Society of Public Health Physicians — Digital Health Committee Head; Technical & Policy Committee Member
- Philippine College of Occupational Medicine
Toolkit
Languages & stacks. R (tidyverse, data.table, ggplot2, survminer, officer, Shiny), Python, SQL (AWS), Stata, SAS.
Clinical terminologies. ICD-10, RxNorm, LOINC, SNOMED-CT.
Methods. RWE study design, NIS benchmarking, SDoH composite indexing via PCA, predictive modeling, geospatial analytics, LLM-based analytics, negative-binomial and ordinal-logistic regression, Markov ICERs, k-means clustering, regression-based imputation.
Evidence synthesis. GRADE, PRISMA, Cochrane RoB 2, ROBINS-I, AMSTAR, TRIPOD-AI, PROBAST, decision-curve analysis, calibration.