I am an environmental epidemiologist with extensive experience leading community-based research and a passion for mentoring public health professionals to leverage epidemiologic methods in the pursuit of social and environmental justice. As the Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Environmental Health Epidemiologist at Washington County, I have taken the lead on building collaborations with partners to improve climate emergency surveillance systems and inform climate adaptation plans with an emphasis on improving our ability to better understand inequities. As a researcher with OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, I played a key role in developing community based participatory research and development of ongoing implementation research surrounding the control of parasitosis induced epilepsy. I was a primary investigator on a Fogarty grant and continued work as an OSLER fellow that resulted in one of the first studies documenting heavy metal biomarkers in humans downstream from decades of gold mining.
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