Simone G. Barbour
Public Health Analyst, County health department
Durham, NC · (919) 555 0116 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/simonegbarbour
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Six years of communicable disease surveillance analysis
INDUSTRIES
County health department, academic medical center
SPECIALTIES
Case surveillance, outbreak analysis, data quality, weekly reporting
SYSTEMS
R, Epi Info, Tableau, REDCap, Microsoft Excel, Esri ArcGIS
CREDENTIALS
Certified in Public Health, National Board of Public Health Examiners
EDUCATION
Master of Public Health in epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Results at a Glance
9,000
Reportable disease cases
23
Cases from restaurant
180
Clinicians and school
Executive Summary
Communicable disease analyst for a county health department covering 340,000 residents. Six years turning case reports, laboratory results and outbreak line lists into numbers a health director can act on by Thursday. Writes the weekly surveillance report the whole department reads.
Signature Achievements
- Analyzes roughly 9,000 reportable disease cases a year for a county of 340,000 residents.
- Cut the median interval from laboratory report to case investigation assignment from four days to one.
- Built the outbreak line list template now used by all six regional health departments in the state.
- Identified a foodborne cluster of 23 cases from restaurant exposure data within 48 hours of the first report.
- Raised completeness of race and ethnicity fields in case records from 62 percent to 91 percent.
- Produced the weekly surveillance report distributed to 180 clinicians and school nurses.
Professional Experience
Public Health Analyst
Eno River County Health Department, Durham, NC 2021 to present
Analyst on a four person epidemiology team serving a county of 340,000 residents.
- Monitors reportable conditions in the state surveillance system and triages laboratory reports.
- Analyzes outbreak data for schools, congregate settings and food service investigations.
- Produces weekly and annual surveillance reports for the health director and the board of health.
- Runs data quality reviews against Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case definitions.
- Handles protected health information under Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act rules.
Epidemiology Associate
Piedmont University Medical Center, Greensboro, NC 2019 to 2021
Associate supporting infection prevention analysis for a 480 bed teaching hospital.
- Tracked healthcare associated infection rates and prepared quarterly submissions.
- Analyzed hand hygiene audit data for the infection prevention committee.
- Built dashboards that gave unit managers their own infection metrics monthly.
Licensure and Certification
Certified in Public Health, National Board of Public Health Examiners, 2020
Member, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
Education
Master of Public Health in epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2019
Bachelor of Science in biology, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, 2017
Core Skills
Case surveillance · Outbreak investigation analysis · Line list management · Data quality review · R · Epi Info · Tableau · Esri ArcGIS · Surveillance reporting · Health information privacy