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Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Consultant at Linksbridge SPC providing support to global, regional, and country-partners through creative and strategic data solutions including:
• Providing data and analytics technical assistance to countries interested in a cross-program campaign calendar to inform their campaign collaboration, integration, and planning decision-making in support of Health.
• Manage and maintain a cross-program campaign database (Campaign Hub), associated data partnerships, and dashboards to support more informed and efficient campaign planning and implementation for the Health Campaign.
• Led the creation of a composite score in R based on stakeholder interviews and focus groups to better identify areas for prioritization and resource mobilization using WHO AFRO collected data to be adapted into a.
• Developed a new relational database and data entry process using SQL and Excel to capture Covid-19 therapeutics data for analysis by key global funder
• Analyzed WHO AFRO collected data in Tableau to inform prioritization of innovative NTDs investments for key global funder

Greater Atlanta Area

• Served as a fellow in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Capacity Building Branch supporting PS19-1904 activities, specifically regional technical assistance component activities.
• Created technical assistance (TA) tools and resources for TA providers to aid them in supporting local health departments on the topics of HIV Data to Care and Cluster and Outbreak Response
• Provided subject matter expertise on HIV Data to Care and Cluster Response for TA providers to prepare them to support local health jurisdictions
• Analyzed Annual Progress Reports to perform a jurisdictional needs assessment to identify TA needs and best practices in health department HIV Cluster Response programs
• Reviewed, edited, and provided technical input on HIV Cluster Response products for distribution to TA providers
• Researched current outbreak methodology to identify gaps in HIV Cluster Response TA to apply knowledge to HIV Cluster Response methodology

Atlanta, GA

• Prepare grant proposals, letters of intent, and corporate sponsorship applications
• Research and prepare summaries of resources for local nonprofit organizations
• Responsible for researching and identifying potential grant opportunities based on mission comparisons and past giving trends
• Create budgets using information from 990 tax form

Atlanta, GA

• Perform homelessness assessment to discern eligibility of candidates into mental health program
• Administer Vulnerability Index - Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool (VI-SPDAT) to incoming patients to determine risk and prioritization in providing assistance to homeless clients
• Perform patient intake by updating patient information and inputting new patient information using electronic medical record (EMR) systems
• Working to improve grant objective monitoring using working knowledge of clinic operations and the EMR

Atlanta, GA

• Clean data sets of 100,000+ observations and 15+ variables using Excel and SAS software
• Utilize SAS to evaluate the HIV continuum of care at the Grady Infectious Disease Clinic

Atlanta, GA

• Performed 40 one on one quantitative evaluations of HIV positive women to understand experiences with stigma and discrimination while living with HIV
• Performed quality assurance on study case report forms on a daily basis
• Patient interfaced to educate and retain study participants including scheduling of interviews and follow ups
• Recruited pre-existing participants for two sub-studies
• Data base cataloging and data management using Microsoft Access and Redcap
• Obtained informed consent from 15 sub study participants

Mohale's Hoek, Lesotho

• Facilitated two GrassRoot Soccer interventions on HIV/AIDS and gender issues with 58 youth
• Planned and facilitated an after-school leadership skills program with program founder
• Organized and directed Girls Leading Our World (GLOW) and Boys Respecting Others (BRO) Camps for 114 boys and girls and 24 teacher advisers which provided 18 district schools with student ambassadors and club advisers.
• Created a framework, including goals and objectives, to evaluate outcomes of above listed youth camps
• Tutored three students weekly on reading and writing for 18 months at a transition home, enabling students to improve literacy levels and advance in school
• Coordinated and executed three HIV Testing and Counseling (HTC) events with community partners to decrease public stigma surrounding HTC services

Master Of Public Health - Mph, Global Health/Infectious Diseases

Certificate, Sql Server Development

Learned and applied the fundamentals of SQL Server development and maintenance including: Relational database modeling and development.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Cell/Molecular Biology