PhD Student

Department of Epidemiology
College of Public Health
University of Nebraska Medical Center

Educational Institutions and Degrees Earned

• May 2012, Master of Public Health, Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
• May 2011, BS Chemistry &  BS Biochemistry-Molecular Biology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA

Work and Research Experience

•  2013-Present: Public Health Epidemiologist, Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
  • Project 1:  Healthy Families America accreditation (2013-2014) for the home visitation program serving approximately 200 families at any given time in Lancaster County to ensure they are meeting & exceeding national standards for home visitation practices
  • Project 2: Application development (2013-present) for the home visitation program, the quality improvement program, the refugee clinic services and other minor programs to help them more easily approach their practices from a data-informed perspective
  • Project 3: Program evaluation (2014-present) for the Partnerships to Improve Community Health grant from the CDC’s Division of Community Health in collaboration with grant coordinators at the Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln
  • Project 4: Current accreditation efforts (2014-present), including the Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), Mobilizations for Action through Planning & Partnerships (MAPP), Community Health Assessment (CHA) and other efforts associated with accreditation through the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB)

MPH Capstone Project (2012)

• Organization: Benton-Franklin Health District, Kennewick, Washington, USA
• Project: 2012 Community Health Profile, Utilized general publicly available data and results of community health assessment survey to inform their MAPP process
• Supervisory Committee: Felicia Rabito (PhD Epidemiology, Tulane SPHTM) & Amy Person (MD, Benton-Franklin Health District)