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Seattle, Wa, Us

Provides project management, technical assistance, and strategy support to clients and partners across various global health topics. Sample projects include:> Health Campaign Effectiveness: Providing technical assistance to countries adopting a cross-program campaign tool designed to inform decision-making around collaboration, integration, and planning; supporting the development and ongoing maintenance of health campaign tools and resources for global-level partners; conducted qualitative surveys and analyses to better understand in-country campaign integration activities.> Neglected Tropical Diseases: Supported the creation of an R-based composite score using input gathered from country stakeholder interviews to identify areas for prioritization and resource mobilization using WHO AFRO collected data to be adapted into a WHO-owned data portal; developed frameworks and tools to support ESPEN in capturing and socializing their impact within the NTDs space. > Polio: Developed revised, interactive training materials for disease and AFP surveillance trainings. > Market Landscaping: Conducted literature reviews and profiled select global health R&D funders to inform strategic positioning analyses for ​country research partnerships. > Multilateral Partnership Strategies: Provided strategic support to large multilateral agencies, funds, and partnerships within the global health ecosystem; tracked progress of large multilateral investments to improve processes in the development of global normative guidance and standards; supported the planning and facilitation of leadership meetings for UN-system agencies and partners.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

> Managed projects throughout their life cycle, including proposal development, oversight of on-site logistics and client deliverables, and project close/at-risk metric sign off.> Coordinated multidisciplinary team of clinical experts to implement peer-to-peer consulting model, resulting in cultural and operational transformations.> Worked collaboratively with clinicians and operational leadership at large physician staffing firms to optimize financial performance at the practice level.> Led a multidisciplinary team of physicians, nurses and strategists in the development of COVID-19 tools and product offerings for hospitals to safely and efficiently return to elective surgery.

> Transformed hospital EMR data to generate Tableau dashboards visualizing operational gaps that led to actionable recommendations and optimization in operating room performance for US-based hospitals. > Collaborated with multidisciplinary team of perioperative stakeholders, including surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and OR business leaders to implement cultural and operational transformations.

Greater Seattle Area

(Technology Accelerator, International Programs)> Assisted with data maintenance, tracking, entry, and cleaning of clinical research data in preparation for analyses and publications. > Facilitated meetings with international collaborators and accompanied research team on new project site visits to launch a new international clinical trial for the use of innovative neonatal technologies in Africa. > Assisted in the preparation of documentation (standard operating procedures, study manuals, ethics review committee documents, progress reports, etc.). > Spearheaded Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-commissioned Neonatal Technologies Landscape Analysis that resulted in the initiation of a Gates Foundation-funded clinical trial to begin enrollment in 2019. > Consulted in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for an Infection Prevention and Control Landscape Analysis performed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.> Published two papers on repeat assessments of exam signs and serious adverse events in children with fast-breathing pneumonia.

In addition to clinical research coordination role, was also responsible for a global health advocacy role. > Expanded professional network membership from 250 researchers and physicians to over 1000, through coordinated email campaigns targeting professionals at the cutting edge of research and health. > Facilitated bi-monthly webinar events on selected topics related to child pneumonia for network members. > Led development and regularly updated content for the Network website in addition to generating new, shareable materials to increase network visibility and promote child pneumonia advocacy around the globe. > Nominated by Leith Greenslade, Co-Chair of the Pneumonia Innovations Network and CEO of JustActions as one of ten PneumoniaFighters!: Hidden Heroes Fighting a Silent Killer, 2018, for outstanding contributions in advancing the fight to end preventable child pneumonia deaths (Area of expertise: Innovation).

Seattle, Washington

Student of the Pathobiology program, University of Washington Department of Global Health. Conducted research rotations with:> Dr. Kevin Hybiske (Chlamydia trachomatis)> Dr. Nina Salama (Helicobacter pylori)> Dr. Alexis Kaushansky (Plasmodium falciparum)

Ann Arbor, Michigan

(Graduate Research Assistant, Medical Sciences Research Complex) > Assisted with research projects relating to forms of intrauterine contraception and its association with pelvic inflammatory disease, as well as factors that may influence observable shifts in the vaginal microbiome. > Led project that further investigated changes that occur in microbial communities when comparing vaginal swab samples that have been mailed to those that have been stored at standard laboratory conditions.

Ann Arbor, Mi

Graduate teaching assistant for undergraduate course (INTMED387: Global Health Practice). Teaching assistant responsibilities included lesson planning, small-group discussion leading and promotion of critical thinking, one-on-one mentoring students, and assignment grading/ course assessment.

Karen, Kenya

Assisted with a research project focused on using a baboon model to develop a better model for use in study of the human lower reproductive tract as well as to test both the short-term and long-term efficacy of a pharmaceutical product developed to reverse symptomology of clinical bacterial vaginosis (BV).

Nairobi, Kenya

Assisted with research focused on extracting significant statistics from the Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP) Baseline Dataset [Zambia cohort(s)]. The goal of this research was to improve the health outcomes of adolescent girls in Zambia that occur as a result of public health risk factors. In addition, the project aimed to use these findings to better characterize the cohort at baseline and use this data in an analysis to find the cost-to-benefit ratio of each arm of AGEP after project/ intervention completion. Internship experience was funded by the University of Michigan Office of Global Public Health and University of Michigan School of Public Health Epidemiology Department.

Columbus, Ohio Area

(Research Assistant, Laboratory Technician at The Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research) Research included early life stress and its projected effects on intestinal microbiota and behavior in a mouse model. Responsibilities included but were not limited to maintaining laboratory operations, performing behavioral tests and high-yield wet lab procedures, assisting graduate students with experiments and protocols, and training new undergraduate researchers and technicians.

Syracuse, New York Area

(Undergraduate Researcher, Laboratory Assistant at Syracuse University Department of Biology) Conducted a Distinction Thesis project on the disruption of two-component signal transduction pathways associated with biofilm formation in stress-resistant, spore-forming Myxococcus xanthus.

Master Of Public Health (Mph), Epidemiology

Activities and Societies: University of Michigan Women in Health Leadership, Maternal and Child Health Student AssociationMPH.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Biology, General

Activities and Societies: Syracuse University Track and Field, Tri BetaGraduated with Cum Laude honors and Distinction in Biology.