Jason Spitzer Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, California, United States

Sacramento County, California, United States

• Temporary reassignment to assist with California Department of Public Health COVID-19 statewide response.• Manage requests from all impacted local, state, tribal, federal, and private sector entities.• Responsible for triaging all incoming and outgoing inquiries for the Department, including researching, analyzing, preparing data reports, drafting official Department correspondence, and problem solving.• Work on time sensitive special assignments from Executive Management and Senior Policy Team, handle confidential materials, and correspond with staff from the Governor’s office.

Sacramento, California Area

• Provide technical assistance, consultation and support to local grantees implementing evidence-based adolescent sexual health curricula throughout California.• Develop programmatic standards, guidance, scopes of work, policies and funding applications.• Provide web-based and in-person training to grantees and other relevant programs.• Lead for all federal grant reporting, including development of submittal timelines, coordination of key epidemiology data and evaluation components, and managing internal review processes.• Monitor grantee scope of work and ensure that all deliverables are completed and meet appropriate timeframes. Assist local providers with developing budgets, ongoing monitoring of budgets for allowable expenses, and review invoices.• Manage a statewide data collection system for funded agencies and serve as subject matter expert for Department-wide website content.

Davis, Ca

• Managed sexual health education, prevention programs, and social marketing campaigns for a college-aged population.• Managed all aspects of anonymous HIV testing program, including maintenance of quality assurance methods, coordination with department laboratory and securing necessary waivers from state and federal entities for testing program.• Developed strategies to evaluate health promotion activities, including the creation of an SPSS database to record and track statistics for HIV testing program.• Recruited, selected, trained, supervised and evaluated up to four student assistants annually and provide indirect supervision to a team of volunteers.• Provided training and oversight to student staff conducting risk reduction counseling to high-risk groups within a college.

HIV/AIDS Program - • Assisted HIV/AIDS Program Coordinator with program Scopes of Work, data system management and direct service to targeted populations.• Organized and conducted HIV, hepatitis C (HCV) and other health education trainings to at-risk community groups.• Prepared a local Needs Assessment for HIV/AIDS program that included organizing and facilitating focus groups for at-risk populations; conducting surveys with local youth; and coordinating with other service providers to establish inventory of HIV/AIDS prevention and care services in the county.• Certified to conduct HIV and HCV tests and prevention skills counseling.• Collaborated and provided trainings to non-clinicians and health providers on relevant topics.• Prepared press releases and other communications to promote community events, as well as reports and resource inventories for clients, colleagues and other community organizations.Emergency Preparedness Program - • Implemented activities under Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) and Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI) grants and collaborated with local agencies to coordinate services in the event of a public health emergency.• Assumed duty of local Health Alert Coordinator and responsible for recruiting Disaster Healthcare Workers.• Disseminated bi-weekly messages to local physicians and community partners with relevant health information.• Participated in drills related to mass prophylaxis and emergency response systems.• Responded to 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu outbreak and responsible for organizing mass vaccination efforts for First Responders and general public.• Served as lead for Flu Vaccination Clinic and Drill (December 2007).Car Seat Safety Program - • Trained to perform car seat installations and provided safety trainings for community members.

• Provided Case Management services, financial assistance and psychosocial support to over 35 HIV-positive clients in Yolo County.• Prepared and conducted HIV Prevention presentations in junior high schools, high schools, drug and alcohol treatment facilities, jails and other community settings.• Managed and oversaw several grants including Ryan White CARE Act and Housing Opportunities for People With AIDS (HOPWA), two federal grants. • Coordinated Speaker's Bureau for HIV-positive individuals to speak in mainstream and alternative high schools, as well as as well as local AIDS Drugs Assistance Program (ADAP), a program that enables HIV-positive individuals to obtain necessary medications.

Trained, supervised and evaluated Resident Advisor (RA) staff in an area of approximately 200 residents.Organized, prepared and facilitated weekly staff and one-on-one meetings. Provided staff development and teambuilding activities.Held RA staff accountable for all programming, administrative, on-call, community development and other job responsibilities. Trained to adjudicate student conduct meetings and Student Review Board. Served as single on-call contact for all student staff in a residence hall system with over 3,000 residents on a rotating basis.

Mph, Public Health, Epidemiology Emphasis

Bs, Agricultural And Managerial Economics