Andrew Tarbox, Mph Email & Phone Number

United States

Quincy, Massachusetts, United States

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Led a program evaluation of the NIH-funded and CFAR-managed Adelante Program which trains early-career HIV researchers, under close guidance from a senior faculty mentor and a member of a Latino-serving HIV-focused.
• Interviewed nine community-based organization partners across three cohorts to identify program gaps that could help them and their organizations derive greater benefit from community-based research collaborations
• Conducted a literature review to provide a theoretical foundation for the evaluation, created qualitative and quantitative instruments for nine interviews, and conducted thematic analysis on emerging interview themes
• Presented evaluation findings and recommendations for program improvements to the CFAR Adelante Program Steering Committee consisting of members from the NIH Office of AIDS Research and Institute for Allergy and.
• Supervise MPH students in Program Evaluation course in Spring 2021 as a primary intended user of a follow-up evaluation that will identify recommendations for and needs of researchers to equitably involve community.
• Co-direct workshop series, seminars, and conferences offered to Emory-affiliated or sponsored HIV/AIDS researchers and community members to support their professional development and education to reduce the HIV burden.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Interviewed HIV, mental health, and substance use service providers at community organizations across the South to understand organizational capacity and structure to provide services that may reduce the HIV burden in.
• Directed research of and email and phone outreach to community organizations across the rural South to boost recruitment for a study focused on scaling up the provision of Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among rural.

Norcross, Georgia, United States

• Co-managed a community needs assessment with four other bilingual MPH students to address how a newly formed Latino Branch Club of the Lions Club of Norcross, a local chapter of a larger international service.
• Developed qualitative interview guides in Spanish and English for interviews with 10 Latino Branch Club leaders and members
• Analyzed qualitative interview data and identified needs and recommendations for the club related to assessment goals
• Presented, in Spanish, needs and recommendations to club leaders and members which included increasing member social support and identifying club service activities to create cohesion among and improve the well-being.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Served as bilingual community health worker of a seven-session randomized control trial with 70 Latino immigrant participants with inconsistent HIV care adherence to address barriers to manage HIV care
• Referred intervention participants to community resources, discussed and implemented strategies to address their difficulties with care, and translated meetings between them and hospital/community agency personnel to.
• Recruited through screening medical records, creating social media advertisements, and presenting at community organizations
• Managed Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocol modifications and amendment submissions
• Tracked, cleaned, and managed data for manuscript preparation or presentations to disseminate research in community settings
• Led qualitative interviews with 30 Latino substance users and/or men who have sex with men recruited from community-based organizations to tailor the previously mentioned intervention for these groups

Rochester, New York, United States

• Created a curriculum map for a community-engaged course, Communities Mental Health and Injury Prevention, which taught how communities promote mental health, reduce mental health stigma, and protect against.
• Recruited artists for and decided exhibit themes of a permanent art exhibit to improve the well-being of psychiatry patients

Rochester, New York Area

• Formed part of two research teams during summer of 2015 and 2016 each comprising six public health students, a faculty researcher, and two local community mentors to conduct field research for an ethnographic project.
• Co-led 25 interviews during the summer of 2015 with middle-aged and elder community members to understand their perceptions of reduced social cohesion in the community and conducted thematic analysis of emerging data
• Mentored a local teen through a photovoice intervention during summer of 2016 to support him and other youth program participants to build social cohesion with elder community members and identify community assets
• Co-authored a conference paper on research findings that was presented at the 2016 Society for Applied Anthropology Meeting

Rochester, New York Area

• MundoComm supports Latin American community teams to develop information communication technology interventions to improve maternal health
• Translated into Spanish and built in REDCap mobile or tablet-delivered quantitative surveys and study protocols
• Conducted literature reviews to help develop survey tools and a training program for community teams accepted to the program

Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

• EPES promotes human rights, nutrition, HIV/AIDS education in Chile through the popular education approach
• Co-managed a workshop series given to municipal public health professionals on the social determinants of health of nutrition

Rochester, New York Area

• Analyzed qualitative and quantitative data for an oral health survey distributed to 75 pregnant mothers in a home visit program to understand barriers to receiving oral healthcare and assess knowledge about oral.
• Presented findings of the oral health survey to agency staff and directors of Head Start maternal-child education programs

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Co-developed a Tai Chi Wellness Program to reduce fall risk among elderly community health center patients at Bowdoin Street Health Center
• Drafted initial curricula and recruited workshop leaders for ten wellness workshops on topics such as mental health implications of falls and home and outdoor safety to prevent falls
• Led enrollment and retention of 20 primarily Spanish, Portuguese, or Haitian Creole-speaking participants

Master Of Public Health - Mph, Behavioral, Social, And Health Education Sciences, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health (Co-President), Rollins Pathways ScholarRelevant Courses: Research.

Bachelor’S Degree, Health, Behavior, And Society; Spanish (Double Major); Latin American Studies (Minor), 3.87

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa (Iota of New York); Magna Cum Laude; Highest Distinction in Spanish and Public Health Majors.

Ies Abroad Health Studies Program, Santiago, Chile

Activities and Societies: Student Council RepresentativeRelevant Courses: Health Studies Program; Spanish for Healthcare Professionals.

Study Abroad, Public Health

Relevant Courses: Chilean Health System