Ashley Tseng, Phd, Mph Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, GA, US

Assigned to the Hawaii State Department of Health, Disease Outbreak Control Division

Rockville, Maryland, US

Bethesda, MD, US

Working with Dr. Ruanne Barnabas, I was successfully awarded a Diversity Supplement from the U.S. National Institutes of Health-National Institute of Mental Health (NIH R01MH124465-02S1) to fund my PhD in Epidemiology Dissertation research about the home delivery of medicine for people living with HIV in rural South Africa.

Seattle, Washington, US

I worked on analyzing data and writing research briefs for the 4th wave of the Washington State Food Security Survey (WAFOOD4) led by Drs. Jennifer Otten and Marie Spiker. Based on an award from the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA), WAFOOD4 examines economic well-being and food security of Washington State residents. For WAFOOD4, my role.

Seattle, WA, US

I worked on a HIV-Tuberculosis (TB) modeling study run by Dr. Jennifer Ross to identify more efficient HIV testing strategies in high-burden settings to maximize the impact from HIV testing and prevention, and estimated the health impact in HIV infections averted of combination prevention and linkage to antiretroviral therapy for serodiscordant couples in.

Seattle, WA, US

I performed phylogenetics and statistical analyses and worked with co-investigators on manuscript development, literature reviews, and parameterization of HIV epidemiological models for the Study of HIV/Hepatitis C, APS, and Phylogenetics for Persons Who Inject Drugs (SHARP) run by Drs. Carey Farquhar and Joshua Herbeck.

Seattle, WA, US

I contributed to the production of daily summaries and in-depth reports of literature related to the COVID-19 outbreak run by Drs. Jennifer Ross and Brandon L. Guthrie. My tasks included a daily systematic search of published and pre-print literature, importation of citations, sorting of references into priority categories, identification of 10-20 articles.

New York, NY, US

I worked as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Epidemiology with Drs. Jeanine Genkinger and Jennifer Ferris on a new research study of nutrition, early detection, and cancer risk and survival (primarily focused on ovarian and pancreatic cancers) for 34 international cohort studies included in the Pooling Project of Prospective Studies of.

New York, NY, US

I worked as a Teaching Assistant for a graduate course at the Mailman School of Public Health: EHSC P8321 (Introduction to Data Science for Environmental Health) taught by Dr. Tiffany R. Sanchez. This team-taught second quarter Spring 2020 course covered both conceptual and practical topics in data science related to environmental health sciences including.

New York, US

I worked on the Western Asia Bat Research Network (WAB-Net) project, funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense – Defense Threat Reduction Agency, to characterize the diversity of bats and associated coronaviruses in the region. I collected diagnostic samples from wild-caught bats for coronavirus surveillance in Turkey and Jordan in August 2019..

New York, NY, US

I worked on the curriculum development of Community Housing Recovery courses for a FEMA training initiative. For this project, I curated Geographic Information Systems (GIS) assets to build a topical application which will serve as supplemental material to these housing recovery trainings throughout the United States.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

I worked as a Program Coordinator for the International Affairs Team. I provided administrative and logistical support for three major programs: PEPFAR (CDC), Global Health Security Agenda (CDC), and Biosafety & Biosecurity (BS&S) strengthening (Department of State), researched public and private funding opportunities for One Health and point-of-care HIV.

Washington, D.C., US

I worked as an Epidemiology Student Trainee at the National Park Service, Office of Public Health, Disease Prevention and Response Epidemiology Branch with Dr. Maria Said. I developed content (e.g., infectious disease fact sheets) for the National Park Service internal and external websites, evaluated Appalachian Trail’s current norovirus surveillance.

Montreal, Qc, CA

As an independent research project in Fall 2017, I worked on the development of a phosphorus footprint tool, which describes the phosphorus losses to the environment that are linked to individual or collective consumption patterns. I continued my research the following semester at the Land and Food Lab of McGill University.

Arlington, Virginia, US

I conducted research, worked on proposal development, data mining, travel and conference logistics, and monitoring & evaluation of ongoing projects for the Biosecurity Engagement Program (BEP) team. BEP’s work is funded by the U.S. Department of State in a multi-year grant from the Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction, with the goal of reducing the risk.

I worked on the Community team for Experiment. I reviewed and edited ~100 project proposals, ran two grant challenges (Seabirds and Public Health), wrote one Science Story on a researcher, answered ~50 daily client e-mails, assisted in project payouts, made five video storyboards for scientists.

Montreal, Qc, CA

I worked on a PhD candidate’s thesis project on nutrient cycling in northern peatlands, examining specifically the importance of N2 fixation as an N input in peatlands and ecological drivers controlling N2 fixation with the special focus on environmental and biogeochemical controls. I assisted in grinding and weighing of 100 moss samples, performed acid.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

I worked with a professor to create a new undergraduate chemistry course at the university focused on creating thin-film solar cells with the hope of exposing students to an alternate form of solar cells made from perovskites, cheaper and simpler to make than other types of solar cells. I planned the structure and content of the course, organized each.

I worked as the business office manager for a SAT/ACT tutor by taking care of the financial (billing) and administrative (scheduling sessions, ordering office supplies, making copies of practice tests) tasks for the company.

I worked with a population sciences researcher on a five-year randomized control trial (RCT) to test the effect of cultural targeting on increasing mammography screening specifically in Chinese immigrants. I started a fundraising project in collaboration with CANCER101 to create a toolkit guiding newly-diagnosed breast cancer patients through treatments.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Epidemiology

Master Of Public Health - Mph, Epidemiology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Majoring In Physical (Health) Geography, Minoring In Economics