Epidemiological consultant, Wildlife Health Center (2023-present)
• Independent contractor providing subject matter expertise and epidemiological advising on behalf of WHC for Behavioral Health Evaluation Strategies
• Providing an analytical plan for evaluating California’s Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative using a broad, systems-based approach that seeks to build a behavioral health ecosystem designed for all California children, youth, and families
Data Science Manager, Biobot Analytics (2023)
• People management: Managed a team of 7 epidemiologists and computational biologists focused on development of advanced analytics and translating raw results into data interpretation products for customers; led team through a reduction in force and two internal re-organizations
• Strategy: Set data science team strategy and developed quarterly and yearly roadmaps for launching new data-drive products and analytical features on customer dashboard and public visualization; oversaw development of new wastewater interpretation data features; compiled and curated framework of 40+ new wastewater data Interpretation features
• Subject matter expertise: Led development of technical support processes; supervised creation of customer-facing technical support materials; served as key external spokesperson, providing interviews and webinars regarding state of wastewater monitoring for COVID-19
Epidemiologist, Biobot Analytics (2022-2023)
• Data science product development and data visualization: developed and implemented algorithms to convert raw wastewater data into actionable public health insights; expanded existing tiering algorithm from <10 customers to appropriately apply to all customer data; led prototyping of novel data visualizations (e.g., mpox) launched on the public website and customer dashboard; created a framework for executive business reviews for strategic customers; led analytical project exploring linkages between communities and facilities; formalized epidemiological situational awareness protocols, including internal clinical variant situational reporting and weekly external COVID-19 wastewater reporting for social media
• Cross-functional team collaboration: Served as lead epidemiologist for development, evaluation, and implementation of data products for customer dashboard; supported R&D and business strategy by developing framework for epidemiological contextualization of new pathogen assays in wastewater; served as subject matter expert on epidemiology and public health company-wide, including for marketing, product, growth, strategy, customer success, and executive teams
• External relationship management: Collaborated with external partners to publish the first article correlating wastewater surveillance to COVID-19 cases in a correctional setting; served as lead epidemiologist for enterprise and pharma customers; interfaced with academic collaborators; served as subject matter expert providing scientific advice to strategic customers (e.g., departments of public health)
• Marketing and science communication: wrote and edited materials for internal and external audiences including white papers, briefs, customer FAQs, academic abstracts, presentations, and academic publications; led internal communications work streams for the company’s non-COVID pathogen assays (mpox, norovirus, flu/RSV) and for a company-wide laboratory protocol change
Epidemiological consultant, COVID Contact Tracing (CCT) (2020)
Volunteer team of public health, engineering, marketing, legal, and design experts empowering COVID-19 responders to do their jobs more effectively
• Helped develop COVID-19 contract tracing solution with goal of saving lives by dramatically improving exposure risk estimates using Google location data
Operations specialist, PREDICT Project, USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) program (2020)
• Coordinated with researchers at One Health Institute to facilitate programs that investigated emerging infectious diseases that pose a threat to human health.
• Created data-driven frameworks for predicting global patterns in emerging infectious diseases and zoonotic disease surveillance in Asia and Africa regions needed to characterize biological and ecological risk for animal-to-human disease transmission in high-risk settings
• Assisted in manuscript writing, editing, and submission of manuscripts
Project scientist, PREDICT Project, USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) program (2015-2019)
• Designed and conducted antimicrobial resistance One Health study in Nepal
• Led field team in collecting 500+ samples from humans, animals, and environment; performed lab work; analyzed data; presented findings locally and internationally; published manuscripts
• Developed, maintained, and analyzed datasets used to create scientific products related to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.
• Coordinated with worldwide partners; established and reviewed institutional protocols and permits for human and animal field activities; traveled to consult with field staff
Researcher, EpiCenter for Disease Dynamics, One Health Institute, Davis, CA (2015-2019)
• Developed, maintained, and analyzed (re-)emerging zoonotic infectious diseases datasets; ensured timely scientific reporting for bio-surveillance projects; established and reviewed institutional protocols and permits for human and field activities
• Provided subject matter expertise as part of subcontractor team for DTRA grants; reviewed predictive modeling suite (machine learning algorithms, support vector regression) to predict risk of outbreak spread in a country given state of healthcare system and likelihood of population to seek healthcare; collected data; provided feedback on modeling efforts and prototype user interface software developed by ENSCO
• Reviewed spatially explicit multi-pathogen risk models to estimate spillover risk for zoonotic pathogens; helped develop additive models to overlay spillover risk assessments onto fine-grained global grid
• Independent contractor providing subject matter expertise and epidemiological advising on behalf of WHC for Behavioral Health Evaluation Strategies
• Providing an analytical plan for evaluating California’s Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative using a broad, systems-based approach that seeks to build a behavioral health ecosystem designed for all California children, youth, and families
Data Science Manager, Biobot Analytics (2023)
• People management: Managed a team of 7 epidemiologists and computational biologists focused on development of advanced analytics and translating raw results into data interpretation products for customers; led team through a reduction in force and two internal re-organizations
• Strategy: Set data science team strategy and developed quarterly and yearly roadmaps for launching new data-drive products and analytical features on customer dashboard and public visualization; oversaw development of new wastewater interpretation data features; compiled and curated framework of 40+ new wastewater data Interpretation features
• Subject matter expertise: Led development of technical support processes; supervised creation of customer-facing technical support materials; served as key external spokesperson, providing interviews and webinars regarding state of wastewater monitoring for COVID-19
Epidemiologist, Biobot Analytics (2022-2023)
• Data science product development and data visualization: developed and implemented algorithms to convert raw wastewater data into actionable public health insights; expanded existing tiering algorithm from <10 customers to appropriately apply to all customer data; led prototyping of novel data visualizations (e.g., mpox) launched on the public website and customer dashboard; created a framework for executive business reviews for strategic customers; led analytical project exploring linkages between communities and facilities; formalized epidemiological situational awareness protocols, including internal clinical variant situational reporting and weekly external COVID-19 wastewater reporting for social media
• Cross-functional team collaboration: Served as lead epidemiologist for development, evaluation, and implementation of data products for customer dashboard; supported R&D and business strategy by developing framework for epidemiological contextualization of new pathogen assays in wastewater; served as subject matter expert on epidemiology and public health company-wide, including for marketing, product, growth, strategy, customer success, and executive teams
• External relationship management: Collaborated with external partners to publish the first article correlating wastewater surveillance to COVID-19 cases in a correctional setting; served as lead epidemiologist for enterprise and pharma customers; interfaced with academic collaborators; served as subject matter expert providing scientific advice to strategic customers (e.g., departments of public health)
• Marketing and science communication: wrote and edited materials for internal and external audiences including white papers, briefs, customer FAQs, academic abstracts, presentations, and academic publications; led internal communications work streams for the company’s non-COVID pathogen assays (mpox, norovirus, flu/RSV) and for a company-wide laboratory protocol change
Epidemiological consultant, COVID Contact Tracing (CCT) (2020)
Volunteer team of public health, engineering, marketing, legal, and design experts empowering COVID-19 responders to do their jobs more effectively
• Helped develop COVID-19 contract tracing solution with goal of saving lives by dramatically improving exposure risk estimates using Google location data
Operations specialist, PREDICT Project, USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) program (2020)
• Coordinated with researchers at One Health Institute to facilitate programs that investigated emerging infectious diseases that pose a threat to human health.
• Created data-driven frameworks for predicting global patterns in emerging infectious diseases and zoonotic disease surveillance in Asia and Africa regions needed to characterize biological and ecological risk for animal-to-human disease transmission in high-risk settings
• Assisted in manuscript writing, editing, and submission of manuscripts
Project scientist, PREDICT Project, USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) program (2015-2019)
• Designed and conducted antimicrobial resistance One Health study in Nepal
• Led field team in collecting 500+ samples from humans, animals, and environment; performed lab work; analyzed data; presented findings locally and internationally; published manuscripts
• Developed, maintained, and analyzed datasets used to create scientific products related to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.
• Coordinated with worldwide partners; established and reviewed institutional protocols and permits for human and animal field activities; traveled to consult with field staff
Researcher, EpiCenter for Disease Dynamics, One Health Institute, Davis, CA (2015-2019)
• Developed, maintained, and analyzed (re-)emerging zoonotic infectious diseases datasets; ensured timely scientific reporting for bio-surveillance projects; established and reviewed institutional protocols and permits for human and field activities
• Provided subject matter expertise as part of subcontractor team for DTRA grants; reviewed predictive modeling suite (machine learning algorithms, support vector regression) to predict risk of outbreak spread in a country given state of healthcare system and likelihood of population to seek healthcare; collected data; provided feedback on modeling efforts and prototype user interface software developed by ENSCO
• Reviewed spatially explicit multi-pathogen risk models to estimate spillover risk for zoonotic pathogens; helped develop additive models to overlay spillover risk assessments onto fine-grained global grid
Consultant, California Emerging Infections Program, Oakland, CA (2013-2014)
• As part of Center for Health Leadership Fellows program, consulted on improving internal communication and organizational systems to increase efficiency of routine and non-routine tasks in the annual grant renewal cycle
• As part of Center for Health Leadership Fellows program, consulted on improving internal communication and organizational systems to increase efficiency of routine and non-routine tasks in the annual grant renewal cycle
Center for Health Leadership Fellows Program, Fellow, UC Berkeley School of Public Health (2012-2014 )
• Took part in a competitive, 18-month leadership development program
• Engaged in training workshops, mentoring, assessments, experiential exercises, peer coaching, conversations with health leaders, opportunities to facilitate and present with feedback, and action learning projects within the school of public health and in the community
Research Fellow, EcoHealthNet Research Exchange, New York City, New York (2013)
• Built a database of 93 bat-virus association studies from 2007-2013; assessed public health significance of recent viral discoveries in bats; used GLMMs to analyze gaps in knowledge surrounding bat virus studies
Case Study Developer/Writer, UC Global Health Institute: One Health Center of Expertise, CA (2011-2012)
• Developed and wrote case studies on Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Ecotourism & Mountain Gorillas for UC multi-campus One Health course, the goal of which was to promote an integrated transdisciplinary approach to global health problems
• Took part in a competitive, 18-month leadership development program
• Engaged in training workshops, mentoring, assessments, experiential exercises, peer coaching, conversations with health leaders, opportunities to facilitate and present with feedback, and action learning projects within the school of public health and in the community
Research Fellow, EcoHealthNet Research Exchange, New York City, New York (2013)
• Built a database of 93 bat-virus association studies from 2007-2013; assessed public health significance of recent viral discoveries in bats; used GLMMs to analyze gaps in knowledge surrounding bat virus studies
Case Study Developer/Writer, UC Global Health Institute: One Health Center of Expertise, CA (2011-2012)
• Developed and wrote case studies on Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Ecotourism & Mountain Gorillas for UC multi-campus One Health course, the goal of which was to promote an integrated transdisciplinary approach to global health problems
Research Assistant III, UCSF/SF Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center,San Francisco, California (2010-2012)
The Study of Consequences of the Protease Inhibitor Era (SCOPE) is an observational study of over 1,000 HIV-infected individuals being followed at San Francisco General Hospital and the SFVAMC
• Study coordinator for the SCOPE Study at the VA Infectious Disease clinic
• Followed over 100 subjects; recruited and consented patients; coordinated patient follow-up visits; collected data/specimens; managed data
• Assisted with manuscript/abstract/proposal writing, editing, and submission; conducted literature reviews and produced written research summaries; managed manuscript submissions
• Managed financial activities: budgets, purchasing, reimbursements, and personnel sub-contracting
• Prepared and maintained annual progress reports for more than 15 research projects
• Managed human research regulatory activities by preparing new and renewal applications for Internal Review Board (IRB) submission; coordinated submissions of research grant and subcontract applications
The Study of Consequences of the Protease Inhibitor Era (SCOPE) is an observational study of over 1,000 HIV-infected individuals being followed at San Francisco General Hospital and the SFVAMC
• Study coordinator for the SCOPE Study at the VA Infectious Disease clinic
• Followed over 100 subjects; recruited and consented patients; coordinated patient follow-up visits; collected data/specimens; managed data
• Assisted with manuscript/abstract/proposal writing, editing, and submission; conducted literature reviews and produced written research summaries; managed manuscript submissions
• Managed financial activities: budgets, purchasing, reimbursements, and personnel sub-contracting
• Prepared and maintained annual progress reports for more than 15 research projects
• Managed human research regulatory activities by preparing new and renewal applications for Internal Review Board (IRB) submission; coordinated submissions of research grant and subcontract applications
Healthcare Programs Director, Village Hopecore International, Chogoria, Kenya (2009)
• Developed and oversaw healthcare program for micro-finance loan recipients, including a malaria education and prevention program; distributed over 1,000 mosquito nets to loan recipients and families
• Conducted interviews of over 100 loan recipients to collect epidemiological data for future health programs; acted as health advocate and liaison between local hospital and loan recipients
FACE AIDS, National Managing Director/National Recruitment Director, Palo Alto, CA (2008-2009)
• Provided operational support to the Executive Director; managed programmatic teams’ operations, including: development, recruiting, programming, national events, education, and chapter relations
• Recruited over 70 new high school and college chapters as Recruitment Director
• Developed and oversaw healthcare program for micro-finance loan recipients, including a malaria education and prevention program; distributed over 1,000 mosquito nets to loan recipients and families
• Conducted interviews of over 100 loan recipients to collect epidemiological data for future health programs; acted as health advocate and liaison between local hospital and loan recipients
FACE AIDS, National Managing Director/National Recruitment Director, Palo Alto, CA (2008-2009)
• Provided operational support to the Executive Director; managed programmatic teams’ operations, including: development, recruiting, programming, national events, education, and chapter relations
• Recruited over 70 new high school and college chapters as Recruitment Director
