Experience

Rutgers School of Public Health

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Professor, Epidemiology Concentration Director

  • Jul 2018 - Present

  Rutgers School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology (joint appointment)Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Division of Environmental and Occupational Medicine (joint appointment) Rutgers School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology (joint appointment)Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Division of Environmental and Occupational Medicine (joint appointment)



Maine Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Health

• Epidemiologist/Project Manager: Environmental Public Health Tracking Program

  • 1999 - 2006

  Manage and provide technical oversight for the Maine Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Program, duties and accomplishments include:• Developing and implementing a public health surveillance system for carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, utilizing traditional and novel data sources. • Developing a new approach for estimating occupational exposure in administrative datasets.• Initiating and co-chairing the National Workgroup for CO Surveillance, work group goals include standardization of CO surveillance methodology. • Participating in the development of logic models for all EPHT projects; developed and implemented workplans, including project indictors.• Analyzing large data sets including, sample-survey data, using SAS and SUDAAN.• Supervising the development and tracking of the $562,000 annual budget; coauthored application for competitive renewal funding, awarded

• Epidemiologist/Coordinator: Maine Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

  • 2001 - 2003

  Managed all aspects of the Maine Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a random-digit-dial telephone survey of Maine adults about chronic disease and injury prevalence and risk factors; duties and accomplishments included: • Providing technical oversight of survey operations• Conducted and disseminated results of data analysis. • Transitioning the Maine BRFSS from its historical role of data collection to a public health program which provides technical assistance in question selection and design, routine and advanced data analysis, and promote the use of BRFSS data for public health practice.• Increasing the budget by over 85% through the competitive grant renewal process. • Developing and implementing a standardized procedure for selection and prioritization of survey questions.• Organizing training in sample survey data analysis for the region’s epidemiologists.



Maine Department of Health and Human Services

• United States
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Epidemiologist: Maine Cancer Registry

  • 1999 - 2002

  Responsible for all aspects of data quality, analysis, and release; responsibilities included:• Writing and implementing polices and procedures for data collection, quality assurance analysis and distribution.• Preparing reports for scientific and lay audiences; preparing grant applications.• Supervising data management staff.• Responding to community concerns about local cancer rates.• Initiating and coordinating a conference on public health data use and confidentiality Responsible for all aspects of data quality, analysis, and release; responsibilities included:• Writing and implementing polices and procedures for data collection, quality assurance analysis and distribution.• Preparing reports for scientific and lay audiences; preparing grant applications.• Supervising data management staff.• Responding to community concerns about local cancer rates.• Initiating and coordinating a conference on public health data use and confidentiality



U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),

• Epidemiologist

  • 1994 - 1999

  Viral Exanthems and Herpesvirus Branch EPIDEMIOLOGIST, 1996-1999Participated in the design and implementation of a national surveillance system for antiviral-resistant herpes simplex virus; responsibilities included:• Supervising data collection, cleaning and entry; conducting data analysis.• Selecting and overseeing 22 clinical project sites, including training study site coordinators and developing a training manual.• Interpreting results for presentation and publication.• Participating in planning a national workshop tasked to develop public health prevention and research priorities for sexually transmitted Herpes Simplex Virus.