Sarah David, MPH

Experience

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  University of Pittsburgh

  Jan 2013 - Apr 2013

  Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

  - Held office hours to help students with convoluted concepts and assigned projects in a Cognitive Psychology course- Copied activity sheets for the class and coded participation points throughout the week for students- Attended weekly faculty meetings to discuss various aspects of the course.

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  AmeriCorps

  Aug 2013 - Jul 2014

  AmeriCorps AIDS United Team Member

  - Provide STD and HIV testing to a variety of populations in the greater Indianapolis area- Participate in the Sex Worker Project performing STD testing and outreach- Created a resource manual and led a support group for Agape Alliance, a non-profit Drop-in Center for commercial sex workers

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  Georgia Department of Public Health

  Oct 2014 - May 2015

  Georgia Emerging Infections Program Intern

  - Conducted data entry, cleaning and chart requests for Active Bacterial Core cases using SENDSS and the CDC developed Access Database- Performed interviews for an E. coli Non-0157 case control study- Entered data on current Salmonella and Campylobacter cases and prepared materials for interviews

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  Emory University

  May 2015 - May 2016

  Graduate Research Assistant

  - Assisted the Prokopec Lab. Designed, organized and developed a research study on the distribution of Aedes albopictus in urban Atlanta- Performed weekly field work for mosquito and bird surveillance for an ongoing West Nile Virus project

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  Georgia Emerging Infections Program

  Jun 2016 - Oct 2020

  - Served as data coordinator for GA MSA Active Bacterial Core Surveillance Program - Reduced chart abstraction discrepancies as a result of validation-based training procedures- Initiated updates to the surveillance database by working with programmers and employing SAS to troubleshoot data transmission errors- Collaborated with community partners to build communicable disease reports for a public health surveillance program. - Created the Data Validation Program for a bacterial surveillance program by developing sampling methodology, creating a data validation log and managing the chart review process-Transformed the surveillance training protocol by designing a Validation Feedback Packet for leadership- Designed, analyzed and presented an internal exploratory analysis on bacterial surveillance pathogens and illicit substance use - Executed bacterial pathogen surveillance for several hospital systems in Atlanta- Evaluated a database transition by analyzing functionality using SAS and cleaning a large surveillance dataset- Initiated biannual analyses of surveillance data and presented findings for principal investigators

  • Project Coordinator - GA MSA

    Aug 2018 - Oct 2020

  • Surveillance Epidemiologist II

    Jan 2017 - Aug 2018

  • Surveillance Epidemiologist I

    Jun 2016 - Jan 2017
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  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  Oct 2020 - Mar 2022

  Public Health Analyst at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Influenza Division, COVID-19 EPI Task Force. Contract with Karna, LLC; GDIT.- Primary program coordinator and data analyst for the Optional Influenza Surveillance Enhancement Program- Developed monthly validation reports for state partners via SAS using macros, PROC REPORT and ODS Excel- Merged aggregate clinical surveillance data with geographic data to create spatiotemporal visualizations using Tableau Show less

  • Data Scientist

    Jun 2021 - Mar 2022

  • Public Health Analyst

    Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
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  Booz Allen Hamilton

  Mar 2022 - now

  Analytical Epidemiologist supporting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services, Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance.-Currently supporting CDC's COVID-19 Data, Analytics and Visualization Task Force on the Aggregate Data Team

  • Associate / Analytical Epidemiologist

    Apr 2023 - now

  • Senior Consultant / Analytical Epidemiologist

    Mar 2022 - Apr 2023