Episode 18: Trust and Outcomes
The year is 2022. Simran Sethi Khanna just won ICPSR’s Undergraduate Paper Competition for her work, “Determining LGB Perceptions of and Trust in the Medical Establishment,” and joined Data Brunch to talk about her findings, her inspiration, and her love of Thai food.
The year is 2025. Simran is now an MD candidate at the Duke University School of Medicine. She still loves Thai food.
We’re still rewarding students like Simran for exemplary use of data, but now in a different way. The ICPSR Research Paper Competition recently transitioned to the ICPSR Data Communication Scholarship for students from ICPSR member institutions. Transcript for Episode 18.

Links from this episode:
- ICPSR Data Communication Scholarship (up to $1,000); Apply by Feb. 23!
- First-Place Undergraduate Paper: “Determining LGB Perceptions of and Trust in the Medical Establishment. (PDF)” The paper uses data from Project STRIDE: Stress, Identity, and Mental Health, New York City, 2004-2005 (ICPSR 35525).
- International Love Data Week (Feb. 10-14, 2025): “Whose Data Is It Anyway?”
- Love Data Week (ICPSR-specific events)
- Data Update: “Stress in America, United States, 2007-2018 (ICPSR 37288)”
- Registration for the 2025 Summer Program is now open! Our General Sessions run from June 19-July 3, and from July 7-August 1.
- The ICPSR Summer Program Scholarship is Now Open and will award up to $150,000! This financial support is for training in statistics, quantitative methods, and data analysis. Apply by Feb. 28!
- Registration is now open for the 2025 ICPSR Biennial Meeting, June 18-20, 2025 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.