Hester Wolfe, Mph Email & Phone Number

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Madison, Wi

• Wrote successful federal grant application resulting in $1 million in funding over 5 years to reduce the disparate burden of HIV/AIDS among Milwaukee’s Black, Latino, and American Indian communities by increasing knowledge of serostatus among HIV-positive individuals • Lead coordination of HIV Minority Health grant planning, implementation, evaluation, and reporting• Collaborate with and provide technical assistance to external partners and sub-grantees• Lead the Health Equity Check-In project, a community-based evaluation involving 26 focus groups with underserved populations in WI • Develop guiding materials and trainings for focus group facilitation and qualitative analysis• Responsible for stakeholder engagement including local facilitators, and academic research partners • Ensure ethical collection and analysis of data and respectful engagement of community partners• Assist with implementation of the Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards across the Division of Public Health• Developed baseline and follow-up surveys using SelectSurvey to assess Division knowledge of, attitudes toward, and implementation of culturally and linguistically appropriate services

Madison, Wi

Placements: Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Minority Health ProgramCentro Hispano of Dane County

Madison, Wi

• Evaluated youth academic support programs• Built evaluation capacity of Centro Hispano staff through trainings and one-on-one technical assistance• Developed and implemented evaluation measures to meet internal quality improvement needs and funder reporting requirements• Designed new and improved existing systems for data collection, management, and analysis• Submitted successful proposal for a one-year Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Mini-Grant to increase food security• Developed pre/post tests for each food security session, analyzed evaluation data using EpiInfo, and presented evaluation results in usable format for internal and external use

Milwaukee, Wi

Project: Community Readiness Assessment of Milwaukee’s readiness to support the use of PrEP among sexually active African American/Black men who have sex with men (MSM)• Scored 28 interviews across five dimensions using the Community Readiness Model • Reconciled differences in scores with second scorer to reach consensus scores• Participated in thematic analysis meeting to identify key themes

St. Paul, Mn

Project: Assessment of Barriers to HIV Testing among Latino and African-Born Populations in Minnesota• Reviewed qualitative literature on barriers to HIV testing and created interview protocol• Grounded study in analysis of surveillance data on late testers in Minnesota• Conducted key informant interviews with providers serving target populations • Transcribed and analyzed interviews using thematic and content analyses• Described the project and its findings in a formal scientific report • Created short reports of findings to share with interview informants

Minneapolis, Mn

• Evaluated Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative grant programs and activities funded by Minnesota Deptartment of Health• Developed improved methods for collection, management, and analysis of data• Presented data in variety of formats for different audiences including year-end report to the funder• Created evaluation plans for grant program activities and for organization’s future evaluation efforts• Made recommendations for organizational evaluation capacity building

Minneapolis, Mn

Project: A Comprehensive Program to Reduce Default from HIV Therapy in Rural Ethiopia• Entered survey and medical history data into data baseProject: Prevalence and Correlates of Khat Use among HIV-Positive Patients in Ethiopia• Entered survey data into data baseProject: Preparation for undergraduate public health course: Global Maternal & Child Health Public Health • Read Reimagining Global Health by Farmer, Kim, Kleinman & Basilico and developed a PowerPoint for each chapter: created learning objectives and summarized key pointsProject: Evaluation of Prenatal Classes at El Centro• Translated responses on evaluation survey from Spanish to English• Tabulated frequencies of themes in qualitative responses and wrote narrative summary of key findings

Minneapolis, Mn

• Took notes at Senate and House hearings on bills relevant to MNACHC work• Attended lobbying strategy meetings at MNACHC• Created fact sheet on data quality transparency bill supported by MNACHC• Tracked and wrote analysis of data quality transparency bill

Minneapolis, Mn

• Supported and translated for Spanish-speaking patients throughout visit• Gathered patients’ social history and health needs and communicated those to care team• Promoted continuity of care with referrals

Quito, Ecuador

• Extracted and analyzed national census data using SPSS and Excel to create databases of mortality rates and risks in the county of Pedro Moncayo and in Ecuador nationally • Interpreted standardized mortality ratios to determine if and how pesticide use in the flower industry in the county of Pedro Moncayo is adversely affecting the health of its population• Discussed and presented findings along with their broader social context• Utilized conversational and written Spanish in a research setting

Minneapolis, Mn

• Evaluated a training for nurses at a hospital in Vietnam sponsored by Children’s Heartlink • Analyzed both quantitative and qualitative data, including pre- and post-test measures and surveys, to evaluate the nurses’ change in knowledge after the training and their opinions on the trainings• Synthesized findings into report and presented to Children’s Heartlink programs staff, including suggestions for future trainings

Minneapolis, Mn

Tutored school-age children in math and English 2 to 3 times a semester as part of community outreach with the Phillips Neighborhood Clinic

Pittsburgh, Pa

• Collected data from 250 obituaries from a gay newspaper in San Francisco spanning 1985-2009• Collaborated in creation of a data base to store information about 82 variables from the obituaries• Graphically analyzed data collected from obituaries using Microsoft Excel

Cusco, Peru

Filled prescriptions and served customers

Orleans, Vt

Filled prescriptions, served customers, and sorted medication deliveries

Master Of Public Health (Mph), Community Health Promotion

Activities and Societies: Interdisciplinary Center for Global Change Scholar, Phillips Neighborhood Clinic

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), History

Activities and Societies: FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment), Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Member.

Public Health, Traditional Medicine, And Community Empowerment Study Abroad

Semester Abroad, Aug - Dec - Coursework in Spanish on Chilean public health, research methods, and advanced Spanish grammar - Independent.

Physics & Chemistry

Summer coursework

Spanish And Latin American Literature

Summer Study Abroad Program, May - June