Taylor Chambers Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon, United States

- Implement all fundraising, programming, and advocacy initiatives throughout Oregon to meet national organization standards.- Develop annual budget and work within budget to carry out mission while maintaining non-profit status.- Recruit, onboard, cultivate, and recognize volunteers to continue chapter's success.- Facilitate volunteer-based workgroups to deepen community involvement in organization.- Convey the work of the chapter to community stakeholders through direct correspondence, social media, interviews, and e-mail marketing.- Learn, master, and present evidence-based suicide prevention programs both in person and virtually.- Mitigate risk of COVID-19 pandemic by creating innovative solutions to in-person needs.- Devise ways to connect with all members of the community virtually by creating safe, supportive, and engaging virtual programs and events.- Connect suicide loss survivors to community and chapter resources to support healing in the hours to years after their loss.

Atlanta, Ga

- Determined and managed effective communication of organization's mission and programs to community stakeholders while managing competing priorities of fundraising, volunteer management and event coordination. - Developed new and innovative ways to communicate the organization's projects and messaging in several different mediums, including in person talks, virtual and in-person interviews, social media, and partnerships with local businesses.- Managed the recruitment, onboarding, coordination, and engagement of new and existing volunteers who effectively deliver community outreach, education programs, and event staffing efforts.- Oversaw the establishment of new communication and coordination practices through the COVID-19 pandemic, to include the adjustment of existing events to meet new needs and the creation of new events during the crisis.- Supervised the chapter's junior board, which is responsible for planning spring fundraising events such as the Atlanta Party for Prevention and Taste of Georgia.- Combined efforts contributed to chapter's most impactful and effective fundraising years, culminating in the large market Chapter of the Year Award (2019) and Overall Chapter of the Year Award (2020).

Atlanta, Ga

- Continued the success of the nation’s first mold surveillance program while taking on the added responsibility of another project, the Candidemia surveillance project.- Trained and managed a 3-person team on data reporting standards and disease surveillance practices to accomplish goals of Candidemia and Mold programs.- Coordinated accurate and timely data transmission with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), including specimen shipments for both projects made bimonthly, and other irregular requests made by the CDC for special projects.- Created annual feedback reports through SAS for participating hospital laboratories on antifungal susceptibilities from submitted isolates sent to the CDC. These reports effectively communicated the results of disease surveillance.- Maintained data integrity through the writing of SAS code to identify incorrect or missing data, reviewed code provided by the CDC, and reviewed Case Report Forms (CRFs) prior to data entry for completion and accuracy.- Effectively communicated project outcomes and data for both projects on a quarterly basis, leveraging ArcGIS, SAS, PowerPoint, Excel, and other data visualization tools.- Provided staff training on both project’s backgrounds, goals, and how to accurately complete CRFs.- Represented Georgia EIP on monthly conference calls for each project, with other states’ EIP sites, various CDC partners, and lead investigators. Additionally, represented Georgia EIP at various career fairs, in-person meetings with state partners, and site visits with the CDC.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Started sentinel mold surveillance project, the first of its kind in the nation. Founding the project included: creating protocols based on other successful surveillance projects, preparing documents for IRB submission, evaluating criteria for definition of a mold-case, establishing lab-based surveillance in regional hospital labs, creating a PHI database, testing a REDCap database created by CDC, and working with hospital staff to secure routine audits and specimen collection for pathology and ancillary tests - a first for the Georgia EIP.• Writes articles for semi-annual newsletter.• Contributed to user guide on how to complete case report forms.• Created exclusionary search algorithm for text-based reports to review expansive pathology audits from hospitals. Reviewed microbiology audits to identify cases not identified by specimens received in lab.

Atlanta, Ga

- Conducted research activities related to multidrug resistant pseudomonas and other carbapenem resistant Gram-negative bacteria.- Managed data entry and was sole analyst.- Transported, logged in, and tracked bacterial specimens collected for surveillance purposes.

Atlanta, Ga

- Recruited, consented, and interviewed study subjects for case-control studies.- Collected data from physicians' offices and medical facilities.- Reported new infections for foodborne illnesses using SENDSS surveillance system.- Reviewed medical charts to complete Case Report Forms.- Logged in and tracked bacterial isolates received from hospitals and reference labs.- Assisted with administrative duties on an as-needed basis.

Greater Atlanta Area

Graduate Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Public Mental Health- Worked closely with professor to ensure students' questions are answered.- Graded attendance and assignments.- Answered questions both in person and via e-mail to questions about class content and expectations.

Chamblee Campus

- Worked with National Center for Injury Prevention and Control to create guidelines and infographics on best practices surrounding Prescription Drug Overdose and reporting for coroners, medical examiners, and death scene investigators.- Reviewed and coded journal articles for meta-analysis on suicide prevention strategies.

Float

Used EPIC EHR to:- Schedule Appointments- Take phone calls and messages- Check in and out patients

New Orleans, La

- Worked directly under the Assistant Director of Fitness and Wellness at the Reily Student Recreation Center.- Managed Personal Trainers.- Maintained websites.

New Orleans, La

- In-classroom teaching assistant for Pre-K - 7th graders.- Worked one-on-one with students, helping with reading and math.

Master Of Public Health (M.P.H.), Epidemiology, Mental Health

Activities and Societies: Rollins School of Public Health Ambassador, Emory Mental Health Alliance, Emory Reproductive Health Association.

Bachelor'S Degree, Public Health, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Alpha Delta Pi, Vice President - Ballroom Dancing ClubMajored in Public Health taking classes at both.