• Collaborated with communications team and 20-member steering committee to create project marketing and communication material, advancing project reach and scope.

• Recruited and built relationships with community partners to co-sponsor over 90 COVID-19 vaccination sites and liaised with multiple stakeholders to develop communications materials for each site.

• Advised on the development of and testing of a new chatbot and lead a state-wide recruitment campaign to enroll users.

• Served as the Michigan representative on the National Institutes of Health Community Engagement Alliance Communications Work Group, promoting our team and developing cross-state collaborations to improve communications strategies.

Two NIH-funded initiatives to reduce COVID-19 health inequities among minority communities in Michigan

• Michigan Community Engagement Alliance (Michigan CEAL)

• Community-Centered Interventions For Improved Vaccine Uptake For COVID (CIVIC) 

• Prioritized needs and liaised with multiple stakeholders and funders to coordinate 9 projects simultaneously, including 2 websites.

• Assessed, monitored, and reported on work progression and milestones while adhering to project timelines and budget constraints.

• Prepared presentations for senior management detailing project scope, progress, and results.

• Developed and managed The Michigan Safer Opioid Prescribing Toolkit - a website with over 600 resources on opioids for providers and patients, including sections on pregnant women, health disparities, and stigma.

• Planned and executed 2 professional development conferences for 100 clinical health care providers, researchers, and government officials.

• Coordinated the Certificate in Injury Science sponsored by the U-M IPC and the U-M School of Public Health, recruited new students into the certificate and supported existing students.

• Managed the U-M IPC Summer Internship program, screened applications, paired students with preceptors, and planned academic summer programing and seminars.

• Go-to team member to develop Center marketing materials and campaigns, including: handouts, flyers, animated video PSAs, podcasts, websites, social media posts, and email newsletters in MailChimp.

• The Michigan Safer Opioid Prescribing Toolkit / Post-Overdose Care in the Emergency Department Project

• Core State Violence and Injury Prevention Program

• Opioid Solutions Network

•  Certificate in Injury Science

• U-M IPC Summer Internship Program

• Untitled dating violence prevention intervention

• Profiles in Injury Prevention Podcast series

• Animated Video PSAs

• U-M IPC website and social media

• Independently contracted by Ted Alcorn to develop and provide research assistance for an evaluation of published literature on gun violence funded by The Joyce Foundation.

• Created and managed a database of over 400 Joyce Foundation funded academic research publications on gun violence, organized by content area and linked to relevant awarded grant(s), identifying over 240 publications that met inclusion criteria.

• Drafted 8 research reports evaluating 70 Joyce funded research publications advanced the field of gun violence prevention, drafts of which led to the final sections in the report, "25 Years of Gun Violence Prevention Research Grant Making".

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• Worked collaboratively as a research assistant on a team of injury researchers from Harborview and the Harvard Injury Control Research Center to study 500+ incidents of legal intervention homicide in the United States.

• Qualitatively evaluated 500+ reports of legal intervention homicide cases in the National Violent Death Reporting System, and then quantitatively analyzed victim and incident characteristics in SAS.

• Identified potential problems with the codebook and recommended solutions to the research team.

• Conducted an individual research investigation titled, “Description of legal intervention homicide by victim mental health and substance abuse problems,” and presented findings to senior researchers, physicians, and surgeons at Harborview, the University of Washington, and at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health.

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INSIGHT Injury Training Research Program Intern

Company Name: Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center Internship

Dates Employed: Jun 2018 – Aug 2018

Employment Duration: 3 months

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States

VIEW MY PRACTICUM RESEARCH - Description of legal intervention homicide by victim mental health and substance abuse problems

• Awarded the 2021 Inaugural INSIGHT Alumni scholarship award for Outstanding Leadership.

• Worked collaboratively as a research assistant on a team of injury researchers from Harborview and the Harvard Injury Control Research Center to study 500+ incidents of legal intervention homicide in the United States.

• Qualitatively evaluated 500+ reports of legal intervention homicide cases in the National Violent Death Reporting System, and then quantitatively analyzed victim and incident characteristics in SAS.

• Identified potential problems with the codebook and recommended solutions to the research team.

• Conducted an individual research investigation titled, “Description of legal intervention homicide by victim mental health and substance abuse problems,” and presented findings to senior researchers, physicians, and surgeons at Harborview, the University of Washington, and at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health.

Retaliatory attitudes and the risk of dating violence aggression among youth and young adults presenting to an urban emergency department

• Designed, investigated, and authored a Master’s Thesis manuscript on the relationship between a young person’s willingness to endorse retaliation and their likelihood of dating violence aggression.

• Performed and extensive literature review to identify appropriate data sources.

• Quantitatively analyzed approximately 1500 individual survey responses from the dataset “Substance Use Among Violently Injured Youth in an Urban Emergency Department: Services and Outcomes in Flint, Michigan, 2009-2013 (Public Use)” in SAS.

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• Communicating Health Risks to the Public

• Leadership Development 

• Gun Violence in the US: Evidence & Action 

• Issues in Injury & Violence 

• Gender Based Violence in Complex Emergencies 

• Foundations of Public Health 

• Determinants of Health

• Health Systems 

• Global & Developmental Perspectives 

• Evaluation of Health Programs 

• Integration of Science & Practice 

• Public Health Surveillance 

• Public Health Interventions 

• Research Methods and Applications

• Analysis of Categorical Data

• Applications of Epidemiologic Research Methods

• Design & Conduct of Observational Epidemiology

• Epidemiology III: Applied Epidemiologic Analysis

• Epidemiology of Alcohol & Drug Problems 

• Methods in Injury Epidemiology & Prevention 

• Master's Essay in Epidemiology 

Condom use for the prevention of STIs among students who do not rely on condoms as their primary for of contraception

This research analyzes the likelihood of college students who do not rely on condoms as their primary form of contraception to use a barrier method (e.g., condoms) to protect themselves against sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and determines the best predictors of condom use among the sample. We hypothesized that pregnancy is the main concern among sexually active adolescents, and that when risk of pregnancy is removed students are less likely to use a barrier method. Surveys of 203 students at a small, liberal arts college support what literature agrees are that the best predictors of condom use at last sex: perceived loss of pleasure by using condoms, perceived partner disapproval of using condoms, and ease of partner communication.

Published in Papers & Publications: Interdisciplinary Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 6 - READ NOW

Presented at:

• 2017 Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Conference in Austin, TX

• 2016 Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Conference in Seattle, WA

Epidemiology of Salmonella typhimurium in Caenorhabditis elegans under different environmental conditions

In this research, I modeled the transmission of a diarrheal disease among populations of C. elegans by exposing the nematodes to S. typhimurium under different environmental conditions. I modeled access to health services and population density in order to see how these aspects of the environment influenced the spread of S. typhimurium. After experimental populations were exposed to the Salmonella, the intestinal bacterial load of worms from each population was counted and compared. I found that, with some deviations, worms with the most access to health services had the lowest S. typhimurium bacterial counts, and worms in the highest population densities had the highest S. typhimurium bacterial counts. These results give insight into how these environmental factors may affect human health outcomes.