Christina Ly, Phd, Mph Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

Lead staff of Texas Medical Association's Council on Science and Public Health and COVID-19 Task Force. Oversees staffing of the Texas Public Health Coalition. Manages the Public Health Department, which serves as the association's liaison with public health organizations and regulatory agencies to strengthen collaboration between medicine and public health. Oversees public health projects administered in the areas of pandemic response, immunizations, child and adolescent health, maternal health, behavioral health, mental health, disaster preparedness and response, obesity, health disparities, infectious disease prevention, aging health, and others. Manages department's collaborative efforts to develop and disseminate physician education, monitor public health trends, and alert physicians to emergent public health issues.

Austin, Texas Area

Staffed Texas Medical Association's Council on Science and Public Health. Managed the Public Health Department and oversaw public health projects administered in the areas of immunizations, child and adolescent health, maternal health, behavioral health, mental health, disaster preparedness and response, obesity, health disparities, infectious disease prevention, aging health, and others.

Austin, Texas Area

Lead staff of Texas Medical Association's Committee on Infectious Diseases and Committee on Cancer, with research and policy priorities in disaster response, infectious diseases, tobacco prevention and control, cancer prevention, and food safety.

Austin, Texas Area

Peer-review publication writing and grant writing. Qualitative and quantitative data collection, management, analysis, and dissemination. Collaborated on research as part of the Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS) on Youth and Young Adults.

Austin, Texas Area

Assisted in literature reviews for manuscript and grant writing for NIH, CDC, and FDA submission; qualitative research and analyses; and faculty database management and data collection for biannual reports to the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation.

Austin, Texas Area

Campaign and product development, student outreach, field testing, data collection and reporting, social media marketing and management, and instructor (Fall 2012) for the Alcohol & Drug Education Program at University Health Services of The University of Texas at Austin.

Austin, Texas Area

Conducted statistical analyses over the School Physical Activity and Nutrition Survey (SPAN) IV 2009-2011 dataset using SAS 9.2 software.

College Station, Texas

Assisted in community-based participatory research, data collection, reporting, dissemination, media placement surveillance, peer-reviewed manuscript editing, and grant editing for NIH, USDA, and CDC submission.

College Station, Texas

Plant pathogen genetics research, DNA and RNA extractions, DNA hybridization, plasmid preparation, genetic cloning, polymerase chain reactions (PCR), including quantitative real-time PCR and reverse transcription PCR, and agarose gel electrophoresis.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Public Health

Activities and Societies: Austin Regional Campus Student Association

Master Of Public Health, Public Health

Activities and Societies: Rural Public Health Student Association, SRPH 5K Fun Run Committee

Bachelor Of Science, Biology

Activities and Societies: ExCEL, IDEAAL, Microbiology Society, Pre-Medical Society