My professional experience includes work related to:
Immunization & Vaccines
I've led or made significant contributions to more than a dozen projects related to immunization and vaccines for various federal agencies and private organizations. Topic areas include:
Influenza manufacturing, distribution and management.
Assessing immunization coverage of school-aged children.
Immunization practices and policies.
Vaccine production and finance.
Emergency Preparedness & Response
Led or made significant contributions to evaluations of pandemic influenza preparedness and response.
Developed and facilitated decision-making workshop at Preparedness Summit.
Volunteer with Maryland Responds Medical Reserve Corps and Baltimore City CERT (Community Emergency Response Team).
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Managed Ebola-related social and behavioral change response and prevention research activities in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.
Collaborated with decision-modeling experts as part of NIH-funded MIDAS (Modeling Infectious Disease Agents Study).
Maternal and Child Health
Started up and directed MCHB (Maternal and Child Health Bureau)-funded MCH Project to to improve local health departments' MCH policies and programs.
AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)-funded dissertation included case studies of community-based approaches to prevent adverse perinatal outcomes.