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Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Collaborate with clinical Care Managers to connect high utilization members to wraparound services to address the social determinants of health needs.Refer Molina member’s to peer and family support services when facing behavioral health concerns for themselves or a family member.Offer technical assistance to behavioral health providers, including billing inquiries, transportation concerns and contract compliance.Conduct site visits with both contracted and non-contracted providers to establish relationships, assist with audits and become familiar with their services.Led Molina’s efforts to obtain and maintain a Trauma Informed Organization certification.Routinely review and update internal policies and procedures, ensuring adherence and compliance with managed care organization contract requirements.Connect healthcare providers to one another and community partners to create synergies and enhance capacity building.Serve as a subject matter expert in harm reduction, ensuring a voice for people who use drugs.Intentional Peer Support certified as of November 2023.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Serve as a bridge to the public health department and the community to foster and nurture partnerships in response to urgent and long-term health issues with a focus on health disparities.Facilitate, engage and present in community meetings, coalitions, and workgroups to increase the visibility of public health, and support new and ongoing health initiatives.Understand and manage community partner objectives, expectations and timelines through regular communication and collaboration, and share findings back to leadership.Develop and implement work plans based upon leadership directives including COVID-19 over-the-counter test kit distribution, testing site establishment and review of large special events to ensure COVID prevention measures are executed.Liaise with community based organizations, local government leaders, constituents and educators throughout Maricopa County to identify health needs and connect to them resources.Organized over 35 COVID-19 vaccine events with more than 20 unique partners since December 2020, including the county’s largest vaccine point-of-dispensing, which administered over 155,000 vaccines over a three-month period. Events focused on vulnerable populations including unsheltered individuals, people who use drugs, under-or-uninsured and those with impediments to accessing healthcare.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Conduct interviews with cases of infectious diseases, with empathy and care, often in cases of severe illness or death.Serve as an enteric disease subject matter expert and liaison between local health jurisdictions, health care providers, CDC, FDA and USDA.Investigate questions and address problems internally, from county health departments and the general public.Conduct data surveillance, qualitative and quantitative analysis, management and cleaning.Lead a centralized enteric disease interview team.Manage outbreaks of enteric diseases, coordinating with local, state and federal partners to investigate and identify the source and stop enteric disease outbreaks. Regularly communicate updates, action steps and outbreak outcomes with local, state and federal partners, stakeholders and management.Grant writing, metric monitoring and reporting.Design infographics, trainings, protocols, investigation guides and tabletop exercises for in and out-of-state audiences.Represent Arizona public health at regional and nationwide conferences with presentations, trainings and work group participation.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Conduct passive and syndromic surveillance to detect, investigate, and control disease outbreaks.Facilitate timely and accurate specimen collection and transportation.Analyze outbreak data and summarize findings for stakeholders.Generate, edit and distribute disease fact sheets, press releases, informational letters, disease guidance and monthly surveillance documents with consideration of audience health literacy.Conduct media interviews and provide educational presentations community and partner organizations.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Review incoming HIV/AIDS lab reports to complete case report forms.Perform quality assurance assessments to ensure accurate case classification.

Master Of Public Health - Mph, Public Health

Master Of Arts - Ma, Applied Anthropology

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Anthropology