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Tuberculosis Program

As a CDI, perform Tuberculosis investigation, intervention, and education activities; to locate, interview, and counsel infected individuals and contacts; to arrange linkage to care and appropriate testing and treatment for control purposes; and to provide health education about the disease for prevention and control.

San Jose, California, United States

Member of Santa Clara County PHD Special Investigation Group, working on Covid-19 investigation, intervention and education.

San Jose CA

• Supervised Meals on Wheels daily operations, including meal ordering, meal deliveries, staff, interns and volunteer coordination, and client relations
• Streamlined meal ordering and delivery systems to make it more efficient
• Managed accurate database of over 1000+ active and potential clients, 12+ staff and 20+ volunteers
• Produced monthly reports to management such as monthly meal counts, expenses, number of clients enrolled etc.
• Promoted healthy eating and advance wellness of the vulnerable population at the Santa Clara county

College Of Public Health

• Planned, developed, administered, analyzed and interpreted an epidemiologic investigation of the National Native American Youth Initiative (NNAYI) program supported by the Association of American Indian Physicians
• Created and evaluated maps using ArcGIS tool to study the geographic pattern of the students participating in the program with a goal to enhance the NNAYI program in the low participation areas
• Conducted literature reviews to recognize how programs are evaluated for superior assessment
• Demonstrated competency in epidemiologic principles and statistic methods by successfully completing the project goals and recommended possible actions for achieving better results in the NNAYI program

Stephenson Cancer Center, Oklahoma City

• Data Manager
• Served as a lead data analyst for national (NCDB) and institutional (OU) cancer database studies mostly using SAS, Excel
• Designed and composed a successful research proposal for the study of Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Medicare database
• Collaborated in writing the statistical section in research manuscripts
• Prepared and presented results of the statistical analysis to a wide audience at a forumBench Work
• Isolated circulating tumor cells (CTC) from breast, lung, and uterine cells from 50+ patients samples

St. Cloud, Minnesota Area

• Encouraged and inspire young students to love to learn by the use of motivators
• Implemented well balanced plan that helps all kinds of learners
• Made an atmosphere where students feel respected and cared for

St. Cloud, Minnesota Area

• Supported individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury to restore and retain independent living skills with an objective to send them back to the community as an empowered citizen
• Participated in administrative duties including staff training, balancing financial documents, scheduling medical appointments and oversight
• Facilitated the implementation of Individual Service Plan of each client
• Provided client oriented services to enhance their quality of life such as outing in the community

Elk River Minnesota

• Developed materials to educate the residence of Sherburne County about their health, safety and general wellbeing
• Attend meetings to be well informed about present and future community actions
• Assisted in various projects facilitated by the county

St. Cloud, Minnesota Area

• Assisted students with their education by helping them with their assignments
• Improved communication skills by assisting average of 10 high school kids on a daily basis

Master Of Public Health (Mph), Epidemiology

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Major: Community Health, Minor:Biology