Experience

DeKalb County Board Of Health

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Communicable Disease Surveillance Supervisor

  • 2019 - Present

  Maintain dual roles as Program Supervisor and a Communicable Disease Specialist, Supervise the day-to-day management of program operations. Develop work plans, project implementation guidelines, and standard operating procedures for public health activities. • Core duties entail program administration, program budget management, grants management, staff leadership/coaching/ mentoring, disease surveillance, public health communications, and technical assistance to the medical community. • Oversees COVID-19 contact tracing, work closely with officials and the contact tracing teams within jails and SPOC (Specimen Point of Contact). • Responsible for program planning, development, and implementation; program monitoring and evaluation; policy and procedure development. • Serve as a critical link to the community, manage partner services programs. • Evaluate data to drive improvements in the overall efficacy and quality of the program. Highlighted Achievements and Contributions: • Provide programmatic supervision to a team of public health professionals responsible for HIV linkage to care, retention, and outreach services. • Amplified efficiencies and minimized delays, leveraged strong communications and project management skills to ensure the on-time delivery of key reports and smooth exchange of information. Show less

• Communicable Disease Specialist, Surveillance

  • 2017 - 2019

  Community-facing role tasked with elevating the awareness of STD and HIV through partnership building, education, surveillance, reporting, and outreach. Gathers, analyzes and monitors data regarding communicable diseases within our local health district. • Provide active surveillance of targeted populations, closely monitor STD/HIV data, treatment referral, follow-up assurance, contact tracing, partner notification, and communicable disease control case intervention and health education. • Provide pre-and-post HIV counseling and rapid HIV testing, along with supportive case management services and reporting. • Deliver direct diagnostic and therapeutic services for public health patients in clinical and field settings.• Ensure report and surveillance activities are in compliance with DPH Epidemiology and Prevention unit protocols. • Ensure educational programs, seminars and in-service training sessions are available and executed to enhance public understanding of various communicable diseases. • Collaborate with local, state, and federal community partners and internal leaders to implement sustainable systems to track, monitor, and report STD/HIV disease and case data; reengage with patients who are currently out of care, while also ensuring resources and services are easily accessible to targeted populations. Highlighted Achievements and Contributions: • Implemented a HIV database from scratch to track cases across Dekalb County’s 760K+residents. • Involved in all aspects of public health community outreach, develop strategic partnerships, manage communications, oversee event planning, execution, and follow-up. Conducts rapid HIV and STD tests throughout the community.• Coach, mentor, and train surveillance and non-surveillance staff; serves as a SME, educate private medical providers on STD treatment guidelines per CDC morbidity and mortality report recommendations. Show less