Lowrie Ward Email & Phone Number

Anchorage, Alaska, United States

Program Manager and Senior Epidemiologist with Syndromic Surveillance program as well as several other data products.

Anchorage, Alaska, United States

Part time public health advisor at the ANC Quarantine Station (CDC contractor)

Washington, Dc

I provided Quality Improvement support and management for two important learning collaboratives in children's health. Improving Pediatric Sepsis Outcomes (IPSO) is a large collaborative with more than 50 children's hospitals working on reducing sepsis-attributable mortality and hospital-onset sepsis. My primary roles with IPSO were: coordinate and facilitate manuscript development, provide quality improvement support for teams, and plan and execute online and in-person programming… Show more I provided Quality Improvement support and management for two important learning collaboratives in children's health. Improving Pediatric Sepsis Outcomes (IPSO) is a large collaborative with more than 50 children's hospitals working on reducing sepsis-attributable mortality and hospital-onset sepsis. My primary roles with IPSO were: coordinate and facilitate manuscript development, provide quality improvement support for teams, and plan and execute online and in-person programming around sepsis bundle work. Pediatric Hospital Care Improvement Project (P-HIP) was a national initiative to develop and distribute measures for pediatric healthcare quality. I co-led the quality improvement collaborative to test two measures with eight children's hospitals. My primary roles were: creating programming for teams, providing technical assistance, and developing products to distribute the work. Show less

Washington, Dc

The CARE Award was a 23-million dollar four-year project funded by the Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). The overall goal of the work was to improve the care and and reduce the costs for Medicaid-covered children with medical complexity at ten children's hospitals in eight states. My work was on the care transformation team - we worked with hospitals to improve the care they provided children with medical complexity using several robust care coordination principles. I led… Show more The CARE Award was a 23-million dollar four-year project funded by the Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). The overall goal of the work was to improve the care and and reduce the costs for Medicaid-covered children with medical complexity at ten children's hospitals in eight states. My work was on the care transformation team - we worked with hospitals to improve the care they provided children with medical complexity using several robust care coordination principles. I led the work of the Practice Transformation Facilitators, who helped to engage community primary care practices in the care of children. This role included a lot of data analysis and visualization. I worked with QI experts to identify areas for improvement for teams and then tracked progress and opportunities with robust dashboards. I gained a lot of experience in survey design and analysis and in chart and report development. Show less

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Accreditation Preparation & Quality Improvement Team

Program Coordinator for Healthy Jacksonville, a community-based network of coalitions working to improve the health of residents in Duval County. I administered and staffed five coalitions: Worksite Wellness (www.firstcoastwwc.org), Childhood Obesity Prevention, Nutrition & Physical Fitness, Diabetes and Asthma. I worked on a state project to adddress Quality Improvement in childhood obesity prevention programs. During my time as Interim Director of Healthy… Show more Program Coordinator for Healthy Jacksonville, a community-based network of coalitions working to improve the health of residents in Duval County. I administered and staffed five coalitions: Worksite Wellness (www.firstcoastwwc.org), Childhood Obesity Prevention, Nutrition & Physical Fitness, Diabetes and Asthma. I worked on a state project to adddress Quality Improvement in childhood obesity prevention programs. During my time as Interim Director of Healthy Jacksonville, I staffed and managed two largre private foundation grants (Robert Wood Johnson and The Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida). Show less

I served with Healthy Jacksonville and provided health education and services to Jacksonville residents.

Master, Public Health

Bachelor'S Of Science, Applied Biology

Occupational Endorsement Certificate, Ethnobotany