Health Assistant

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Passionate and dedicated public health professional with experience in health education, research, communications, and disease prevention through provision of individual and group support to meet diverse needs. Experience designing and implementing health education materials and coordination of community outreach. Superb interpersonal communication skills with a desire to connect and liaise with others in order to foster sustainable change within communities. Prepared to leverage robust educational background and professional experience in a tangible way.

Audrey Foxx

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Wrentham, MA

WORK HISTORY

Partners In Health, Boston, MA 05/2020 – Present

Specialized Case Investigator: Epidemic Intelligence Unit

•Provide actionable intelligence to local health departments through investigation of emerging COVID-19 clusters.

•Collected and recorded accurate information using CRM software to maintain data integrity and inform Massachusetts DPH decision making.

•Demonstrated excellent interpersonal skills while interacting professionally with culturally diverse individuals in time of crisis and distress.

Uganda Village Project, Iganga, Uganda 06/2019 - 08/2019

International Team Leader

•Served as team lead for cross-cultural intern team of undergraduate students while living in a resource constrained setting.

•Led team planning meetings, translated strategies into implementation, managed and reported program data, and served as liaison for staff and village leaders.

•Conducted baseline surveys on 161 households to gather both qualitative and quantitative data on health attitudes and behaviors. Statistical analysis of the data was completed using R to identify high priority areas and inform sensitization programming.

•Developed and implemented culturally sensitive health education sessions tailored to a conservative, low-literacy population based on data gathered.

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 09/2017 -05/2018

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

•Developed and taught two lesson plans discussing healthy relationships and sex-positive education to classroom of 100+ students.

•Inspired interest in classroom material through facilitation of discussion and leading interactive classroom activities.

•Evaluated student success by grading essays and reflection assignments, proctoring exams, and preparing classroom material including PowerPoints, discussion questions, written assignments, and group projects.

CCHERS Inc., Boston, MA 05/2016- 08/2016

Family Advocate Intern

•Spearheaded development for 50-page Community Advocacy Manual focusing on Domestic Violence resources to enhance outreach services for Family Advocates.

•Aided with overall Community Advocacy program linkage, partnership, and implantation of specific programmatic initiatives by shadowing advocates and maintaining communication platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Technical Skills: biostatistics, epidemiology, community assessment, program

design, program implementation,

monitoring and evaluation, R

statistical software, Salesforce, all Microsoft platforms.

Soft Skills: Interpersonal

communication, leadership.

flexibility, self-direction,

problem solving, empathy,

compassion, systems level

thinking.

Demonstrated Experience:

health education, community outreach and engagement, research, team and workflow management,

working in low-resource settings

with culturally diverse,

high-need populations.

EDUCATION

Boston University May 2020

Master of Public Health

UMASS Amherst May 2018

Bachelor of Science: Public Health

Bachelor of Arts: Political Science

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