Vandy girl, through and through. 

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​Bachelor of Arts, Vanderbilt University, class of 2016
Double major in Medicine, Health, and Society and Religious Studies

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Masters of Public Health, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, class of 2021
Concentration in Health Policy, capstone in public health informatics

Skills and proficiencies

Caption: Microsoft Word (advanced), Microsoft Excel (advanced), Microsoft PowerPoint (advanced), Microsoft Outlook (advanced), Microsoft Publisher (advanced), REDCap (advanced), Canva, OmniUpdate, MailChimp, SalesForce, Magento, Shopify, STATA (intermediate), VISTA CPRS, Epic

Public Health Course Work

​Course Title
Description
Term Taken
Epidemiology I
Reviewed measures of disease frequency and association, observational study designs, diagnostic and screening tests, the role of epidemiology in measuring the occurrence of events or diseases in populations, estimating risks,  influencing public health policy, and  study designs including cohort, case-control, cross-sectional, and ecologic studies.
Fall 2019
Biostatistics I​
​The skills gained from this course include: conducting the appropriate descriptive and univariate data analyses, interpreting results that best attempt to answer your study’s question, summarizing and displaying data, probability and probability distributions, hypothesis testing and statistical inference, application of statistical methods, appropriateness of statistical methods (model assumptions), simple regression models, and statistical software package (Stata version 16). 
Fall 2019
Public Health Practice
​This course reviewed basic approaches to public health surveillance, including disease reporting regulations and notifiable diseases, surveillance for infectious diseases, chronic diseases and adverse events, use of surveillance data, and how surveillance data can inform public health program, policy and practice. 
Fall 2019
Survey Research Methods
​The course included content on survey modes, sampling, questionnaire development, and survey implementation. I developed a research question, recruitment materials, and a short questionnaire based on the theory and skills learned in the course.
Fall 2019
Qualitative Research Methods
​The primary skills developed include techniques of the case study method; including interviews, focus groups,  observation, and an introduction to mixed methods. The course also included strategies for validity and reliability, and the relevance of standard evaluative criteria such as objectivity, neutrality, and generalizability.
Fall 2019
Intro to Health Policy
An overview of the U.S. healthcare system and key features of its financing and delivery.  Discussed the strengths and weaknesses of our healthcare system, historical trends,  how we compare to other countries, major components of the Affordable Care Act, implementation and political challenges, and the potential of future reforms. Drawing on materials from different academic disciplines, including economics, political science, and sociology, the course placed particular emphasis on analytic approaches to evaluate policy impact. Also addressed a range of topics, including the structure of the delivery system, drivers of spending growth, quality of care, and long-term care.
Fall 2019
Biostatistics II
​Skills from this course include: Selecting and generating an appropriate graphical and numerical summaries of data, using principles of hypothesis testing to make inferences about populations from samples, performing residual analyses and drawing plots to assess how well models fit the data and to detect outliers, communicating statistical findings to others, using computer software to conduct simple statistical analysis, and understanding assumptions underlying multiple regression models.
Spring 2020
Science of Health Behavior
​An overview of social and behavioral science theories that are currently used to (a) understand health behaviors; and (b) guide the development of interventions to prevent, reduce, or eliminate major public health problems.
Spring 2020
Health Economics
​Competencies from this course include: understanding the factors that influence consumer demand for medical care, including the role of prices, insurance, advertising, information, time costs, and provider influence/incentives, understanding the factors that influence demand for health insurance, including the role of prices, income, labor markets, and information, describing the U.S market for health insurance, including the roles of moral hazard, adverse selection, and regulation, understanding the fundamentals of the production of medical services, including hospitals, health professionals, and device and drug manufacturers, understanding input factor substitution, economies of scale and scope, and technology adoption, explaining major market failures in health care and the rationale for government intervention.and  the critical importance of evidence in advancing public health knowledge. 
Spring 2020
Program and Policy Evaluation
Competencies include: foundational concepts in causal inference, threats to internal and external
validity, and an overview of observational and experimental study designs for program and policy
evaluation. 
Spring 2020
Leadership and Management in Public Health
​This course explored diverse health systems,
organizational behavior, health policy, program design, innovative finance models, program management, social enterprise, and core management techniques.
Spring 2020
​Implementation Science
Learned the foundations of D&I including its theoretical underpinnings, as well as how to design and conduct an implementation study. Additional topics included conducting D&I in community andpublic health settings, policy settings, and the global context 
Spring 2020
Public Health Ethics
​This course included public health ethics, research ethics, and global health ethics
Spring 2020
Case Studies in COVID-19
​Faculty members presented representative case reports and lead interactive discussions on pathophysiology, epidemiology, disease transmission, clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, diagnosis, and management. Course content also covered important prevention (i.e. PPE, novel therapeutics) as well as public health containment and control aspects, including pandemic specific issues faced by resource-replete as well as resource-constrained settings.
Summer 2020
LGBTI Health in Interprofessional Practice
​This course included guidance for self-exploration of biases, discomforts, strengths and talents that may impede or restore the provision of equitable healthcare delivery for LGBTI people, language, sexual development, disease prevention, health risks and legal and ethical issues related to gender identity and sexual orientation, specific healthcare concerns for patients with disorders of sexual development (DSD). 
Summer 2020
Intro to Public Health Informatics
​Understanding the complexity of the data systems that underpin public health practice and the importance of informatics in data acquisition, analysis and use. Particular emphasis placed on the role of informatics in surveillance, including outbreak investigation, and infrastructure.
Fall 2020
Capstone Development
​A course designed for second-year MPH students to synthesize and reflect upon the public health knowledge and skills that they have developed during the MPH Program. 
Fall 2020
Foundations of Health IT
​An overview of important Health IT topics including processors, structure of data, registry data, security and privacy, data manipulation, data networks, interoperability, system architecture, and analysis. 
Fall 2020
The Health System
This course provided a broad overview of actors & organizations comprising our health care systems as well as the societal and organizational trends facing consumers, clinicians, executives, and policy-makers. It included an overview of some of the major characteristics of the American healthcare system that in turn drive health care delivery and clinical informatics priorities. Topics included a historical overview of the American Healthcare system, health care economics and financing, current regulatory issues, and other factors both influencing current informatics initiatives and suggesting future opportunities for innovative informatics solutions
Fall 2020
Health Care Marketing
​1) marketing with a focus on consumer decision making, 2) health care with a focus on emerging trends associated with consumers’ taking greater control of their own choices, and 3) technology and the role that technology adoption will have with respect to the other two fact
Fall 2020
Spreadsheets for Business Analytics
Advanced features of Excel are covered, including named ranges, formal tables, pivot tables, data tables, subtotals, form controls, auto and advanced filters, numerous advanced worksheet functions, conditional formatting, and the new dynamic-array worksheet functions for Excel (Office 365). Applications include optimization modeling (linear programming) and simulation of financial and operations problems. 
Spring 2021
Decision Analysis in Medicine and Public Health
This course introduces students to the methods and applications of decision analysis (DA) and cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) in the health sector.
Spring 2021
Health Care Analytics
Value
Spring 2021