Elizabeth Yoder Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

•Leads the Clinical Quality Management Program for the Kansas City Transitional Grant Area (KC-TGA), an 11-county designated region for the provision of services to people with HIV. •Provides technical assistance to Ryan White Part A subrecipients on quality improvement efforts.•Evaluates client-level data reports and progress in achieving Ryan White work plan goals.•Implement PDSAs (Plan, Do, Study, Act) and provide updates for the Quality Management Plan.•Prepares epidemiological profiles and statistical & quality reports for the KC-TGA Planning Council and other bodies.•Works with HIV Surveillance teams to monitor success in achieving national HIV Care Continuum and Ending the Epidemic goals.•Management of other data-focused reporting, including division Key Performance Indicators

• Led the Epidemiology program for a mixed urban, suburban, and rural county health department in the Kansas City Metropolitan area. Program areas include the COVID-19 pandemic response, monitoring of the continued opioid epidemic, communicable disease surveillance, and chronic disease surveillance. • Drove conversations about health equity through leadership on internal health equity committee, assistance with outreach to diverse communities on COVID-19 vaccine access and leveraging of data to support equitable policies. • Led the adoption of the LGBTQ+ Health Care Bill of Rights in 2021• Oversaw the development of intervention strategies, polices & procedures, and the evaluation of prevention & control programs• Oversaw research activities, including population survey development and manuscript preparation• Developed and maintained relationships with community health care providers, social service agencies, schools, and other state & local health officials to ensure reporting, prevention and control of communicable diseases

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

• Leads the transformation of the City’s health statistics from static reports to interactive and/or engaging data stories. Examples include the Community Health Assessment, the Community Health Improvement Plan, and the Public Health Connection series on the impacts of institutional racism on health outcomes in Kansas City, MO. • Leverages epidemiologic data to push through local health policy initiatives. Examples include a local Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, Healthy Homes Rental Inspection Program, and declaration by the Kansas City, MO City Council that racism is a public health crisis.• Assisted with the development of LifeX, a city-wide initiative focused on improving life expectancy for our struggling communities. LifeX has resulted in several inter-departmental relationships, including an initiative with Parks Department and a task force aimed at increasing economic opportunities for city employees. • During the COVID-19 Response, created public-facing interactive data hub to keep residents informed of the status of the COVID-19 pandemic in the City. Included a focus on the health equity impacts of COVID-19, with a supplemental report that looks deeper into existing inequities that were exacerbated by the pandemic. • Thought leader on communicating with data, including the use of social media by local health departments as a key tool in community engagement. • Manages the Health Levy Safety Net program, which provides over $30 million in funding to subsidize the cost of uninsured care of Kansas City, MO residents. Implemented additional funding stream of $400,000 to encourage innovation & prevention in care.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Provides support services to the Defense Health Agency Program Integrity, which is responsible for worldwide anti-fraud activities for both Purchased Care and Direct Care settings within the Military Health System (MHS). • Applied epidemiologic concepts to fraud prevention efforts for the Defense Health System, Program Integrity Unit.• Produced interactive reports using Tableau to assist with monitoring for fraudulent activities in TriCARE claims data.

Kansas City, Ks, Us

• Assistance in the design, development, and testing of new nursing quality indicators• Production of nursing quality indicator reports that allowed hospitals to make data-driven staffing and policy decisions to improve patient outcomes• Statistical analyses to support peer-reviewed publications and national presentations

Topeka, Ks, Us

Epidemiologist & Evaluator at KDHE in the Bureau of Health Promotion. Work was primarily with the Arthritis Program focusing on describing the prevalence and burden of arthritis in Kansas. Other job duties included descriptive epidemiology for the Cancer, Physical Activity & Nutrition, and Obesity Programs.

Saint Paul, Minnesota, Us

Mph, Epidemiology

Graduate Certificate, Beam (Building Expertise In Administration & Management)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Biology, General

Education record