Experience

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  University of alabama at birmingham 1917 clinic

  Jan 2013 - May 2013

  Sexual health awareness educator

  • Organized health education workshops for teenagers and young adults based on research-based strategies to increase awareness of birth control methods and prophylactics while decreasing the likelihood of health behaviors that lead to the transmission of sexually transmitted infections.• Prepared comprehensive oral presentations with visual components that maintained audience engagement.• Completed 45 hours of health education training on effective teaching methods and topics including sexual decision making, sexually transmitted infection awareness, and differentiating between abusive and healthy relationships. • Contributed to maintaining a sex positive environment within the college campus by presenting sex-related topics, coordinating campus programs, conducting outreach, distributing health education materials, and attending regular meetings on health education strategies. Show less

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  Jefferson county department of health

  Nov 2013 - Jul 2014

  Prevention & epidemiology intern

  • Assisted senior staff with site visits to public, private, and nonprofit facilities and gathered quantitative and qualitative data on program operations, determine compliance with State regulations and policies, and completed written reports based on epidemiological data for management.• Managed demographic data used the health department’s annual report on reportable infectious diseases.• Performed evaluation and content editing when revising the health department’s childcare centers and pre-school manual on infection control by identifying policy issues, updating vaccination guidelines, and ensuring manuscript continuity.• Provided health education through patient interviews and assisting with oral presentations in the community.• Created visual presentations on programmatic concepts and practices used by disease intervention staff for community awareness events.• Participated in special projects by providing infectious disease data for the community health assessment committee and offered insight on health behavior strategies and methods for the community health improvement plan committee.• Completed administrative tasks such as organizing meetings with departmental leaders, providing documentation for epidemiological activities, performing data entry, and conducting file management via SharePoint. Show less

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  Jefferson county department of health

  Sept 2014 - now

  • Provide daily status reports on COVID-19 using data analysis and other written communications to executive level management conveying information on disease prevalence and incidence to assist in guiding executive directives at both the county and state level. • Streamlined the COVID-19 data entry and data cleaning processes for internal databases used in tracking individuals’ quarantine timelines in order to meet goals of the organization; decreased data cleaning time by 50% which increased productivity in other areas of the disease investigation process.• Trained and supervised a data entry team of 3 workers.• Identified processes to streamline data entry workflow and outlined data management standards for internal staff.• Created a user’s manual for the new internal COVID-19 database that assisted data entry staff in adapting to the newly developed technology.• Directed the cost estimations for exponentially expanding contact tracing efforts by 300% through third-party staffing solutions by calculating the average time consumed on individual COVID-19 case investigations.• Administer the health department’s influenza surveillance for Jefferson County, AL, which includes recruiting health-related facilities and providers, coordinating biological specimen collection, managing data collection, and providing weekly reports on significant findings to senior staff as well as the public.• Manage Hepatitis A vaccine patient data and provide monthly written communication via data analysis reports used in maintaining initiatives toward mitigating the local spread of the disease by fully vaccinating high-risk individuals.• Participated in special projects as a charter member of the Employee Orientation Experience Committee that used focus groups to gather quantitative data used in analyzing the organization’s new employee experience to improve onboarding processes. Show less • Coordinated with internal and external disease intervention personnel from various health-related agencies to conduct research and gather pertinent data needed to implement the most relevant public health strategies and identify healthcare-associated infections.• Lead the collection of biological specimens and epidemiological data by coordinating with organizations and interviewing individuals involved in infectious disease outbreaks.• Served as project officer and point of contact in over 100 infectious disease outbreaks and foodborne investigations that involved external agency site visits, being knowledgeable of and evaluating operational processes, performing extensive contact tracing, providing consultation, and delivering technical assistance.• Conducted interviews to complete questionnaires that gathered both quantitative and qualitative data in order to prepare statistical reports used in making recommendations to facility management.• Performed environmental scanning of local residents for the Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response that helped guide Jefferson County’s disaster preparation efforts.• Applied user experience design strategies for special projects developing the framework for a phone and tablet application to help streamline processes for health-related programs and services. • Educated audiences by providing oral presentations at private and public events for audiences up to 100+ on the administrative and analytical methods used in public health organizations.• Identified and implemented public health strategies to assist organizations with disease mitigation and specific concerns or conditions.• Trained new Disease Control interns and student physicians on both state and local methods for disease surveillance, processes of a public health program, and disease prevention strategies. Show less

  • Epidemiological Analyst in Disease Control

    Jun 2018 - now

  • Disease Intervention Specialist in Prevention & Epidemiology

    Sept 2014 - Jun 2018