Liza King Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

* Communications Research Analyst in Bureau of Epidemiology Services* Produce tools and reports that disaggregate data to highlight health inequities. Released a report on the Health of Asians and Pacific Islanders (APIs) in New York City, and produced a series of Community Health Profiles. * Support and uplift initiatives to further understand and improve the health of API and other underrepresented communities.* Collaborate and engage with communities to best meet their data needs and ensure appropriate representation of their communities in Health Department data collection, analysis and presentation.* Mine, analyze and compile data from large citywide datasets. Promote improved data disaggregation for both race/ethnicity and geography across health datasets.* Visualize data for both online tools and publications for various audiences. Work towards centering equity in all our written and visual work.

* Launched a new web-based registry surveillance system in September 2010, used for reporting and managing all TB patients. Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders including the software vendor to develop and customize the system to meet all functional requirements. Prior to going live, this involved several data projects such as migrating thirty years of patient data from the previous mainframe; ensuring accurate electronic reporting processes; mapping a secure data extract to report to funding agencies; developing and testing key reports, workflow processes, user security; and implementing the system in multiple stages, including six weeks of User Acceptance Testing and two weeks of pilot testing.* Designed and directed the training for over 250 staff on how to use the new system. Created education and training materials, conducted multiple trainings targeted for different levels of end users, assessed training needs, and compiled user feedback.* Monitor and improve the system by releasing new deployments, conducting quality checks of data, identifying user needs, creating additional training materials and guidelines, documenting and troubleshooting issues.* Ensure accurate reporting of demographic, clinical, and contact investigation data to federal funding agencies.* Collaborate and consult with other bureaus and non-NYC jurisdictions that are implementing surveillance systems with the same software.

* Write summary reports that evaluate outcomes such as knowledge improvement, retention, and behavior change of participants taking continuing medical education interventions.* Analyze participant survey data using SPSS (syntax) at three time points using non-parametric and paired t-testing methods.* Investigate performance improvement from participants' chart review data collected pre and post interventions using Pearson's chi-square, correlation, analysis of variance, linear and logistic regression models.* Provide recommendations to improve study design and data collection.

* Wrote and published studies analyzing treatment outcomes among HIV-infected TB patients and TB meningitis patients with various patterns of drug resistance.* Assisted the Assistant Commissioner by researching and evaluating quantitative and qualitative data from various sources, directly influencing policy and developing recommendations for decision making. Conducted ad hoc analyses, reviewed scientific literature, wrote clinical policies and protocols, prepared budget data, and developed academic presentations.* Liaised with agencies outside the Bureau; prepared annual cooperative agreements to federal funding agencies and quarterly progress reports to local and state stakeholders.* Oversaw collection, analysis, management, and presentation of data at quarterly Cohort Review meetings. Pioneered in NYC, these meetings are systematic reviews of all active TB cases serving as the primary method of ensuring quality in case management.* Presented and published Cohort Review methods to national and international audiences, including developing and conducting an annual course in the Cohort Review process.

* Collected, managed, and presented data at quarterly Cohort Review meetings. Developed protocols to systematically track all case management issues identified during meetings. Directed and trained an epidemiologist to monitor and ensure follow up for all identified issues.* Assisted the Bureau Director by analyzing quantitative and qualitative data for internal and external reports, conducting literature reviews, preparing academic presentations, and compiling data for other programmatic activities.* Created a blueprint to evaluate findings and identify best practices of all targeted testing activities for latent TB infection.* Led onsite expanded investigations of contacts to active TB patients. Coordinated and conducted testing, collected and analyzed data for epidemiologic reports, and assessed transmission at these sites.* Investigated clusters of TB patients that were linked through molecular genotyping methods. Re-interviewed patients and gathered data from multiple sources seeking further epidemiologic links between patients.* Interviewed patients for a study to assess the preventability of TB. Conducted medical chart reviews and entered results into an Access database.

* Designed an HIV/AIDS resource library to support USAID HIV/AIDS initiatives. Procured, categorized, and disseminated documents; maintained an online database.* Researched and compiled relevant HIV/AIDS documents for monitoring and evaluation teams working in countries with high HIV prevalence.

* Collaborated with local counterparts in the WHO initiative to eradicate polio in Bangladesh. Educated hard-to-reach populations through school-based education and taught the importance of proper immunizations in rural communities.* Developed the first year Peace Corps program in Bangladesh through policy and decision-making based on direct field experience. Supplied perspective for future efforts, and trained subsequent volunteers.* Taught English to adults at the national Primary Training Institute, a one-year primary school teacher-training program designed to strengthen the standard of primary education.

Mph, Epidemiology

Thesis: Analyzing sex and gender differences in HIV/AIDS drug treatment and virologic response

Bs, Biology