Experience

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  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

  • Rockville, Maryland, United States

  • Public Health Advisor

    • Jun 2022 - Present
    • Rockville, Maryland, United States

    Serves as the principal representative for a well-defined and established program of moderate complexity. Provides program consultation, guidance, and assistance and is responsible for carrying out and promoting significant public health program activities in federal, local, state and international settings with relative independence. Establishes and maintains an integrated system of information gathering and reporting devices and analyzes the data and assesses the program needs in terms of strategies, services, and resources. Performs duties related to the development, extension, and improvement of healthcare systems and/or communications.

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  BALTIMORE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT

  • Towson, Maryland, United States

  • Public Health Investigator-DIS

    • Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
    • Towson, Maryland, United States

    • ground work for COVID-19 contact tracing framework Conducts field epidemiology of communicable diseases outbreaks by reviewing individual reports of positive communicable diseases tests with the patient's physician• Evaluates diagnostic criteria and treatment regimens with the physicians• Interviews infected patients• Locates individuals exposed to communicable diseases to seek medical evaluation and treatment• Provides recommendations to and collaborates with local health department officials regarding the control of communicable diseases outbreaks based on results of field epidemiology and state and federal guidelines. • Conducts investigations to locate cases and contacts of tuberculosis, sexually transmitted disease, human immunodeficiency virus or other communicable diseases and selected non-communicable diseases, such as alcoholism, by interviewing patients to determine contacts• Convincing individuals to voluntarily seek diagnosis and treatment as required by applicable public health laws• COVID19 emergency response efforts included resource management, answering hotline calls, creating data visualization charts, and conducting surveillance on confirmed Baltimore county cases

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  University of Maryland Baltimore

  • Clinical Research Assistant

    • Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

    School of Medicine-Department of Psychiatry

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  University of Maryland Medical Center

  • Baltimore, Maryland Area

  • Research Intern

    • Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
    • Baltimore, Maryland Area