Catherine Payton, MPH

• Worked with team on standing up EpiTrax in 6 months
• Standardize statewide data collection for reportable conditions
• Serve as state administrator for EpiTrax
• Establish and provide for disease investigators across 17 jurisdictions
• Oversee two Epidemiologists on EpiTrax team
• Worked with software development team on troubleshooting errors during program standup and data migration
• Create surveillance tools that comply with NNDSS and CDC guidance

• Use SAS to identify breakthrough COVID-19 cases that was used to create daily breakthrough dashboard
• Review COVID-19 lab results

• Extracted large Athena datasets to create reports for care goals and Medicare requirements
• Generated reports for internal and external stakeholders to identify care gaps in medicare and medicaid patients

• Subcontracted to rural health at Carson City Health and Human Services
• Design processes for data collection and case investigations for COVID-19 using survey tool
• Clean and analyze disease investigation data
• Generate reports for internal and external stakeholders and grant reporting
• Create written protocols for data collection and disease investigation
• Co-manage COVID-19 investigation team
• Increased disease investigation capacity by 800% with triage investigation protocol

• Awarded Certificate of Excellence: June 24, 2019
• Coordinate and account for administration of study startup for potential new clinical trials
• Prepare and submit regulatory documentation to sponsors, IRB, and FDA
• Review medical records and/or perform telephone or in-person interviews to gather data
• Schedule and attend participant study visits
• Coordinate specimen shipment accurately under well-defined requirements
• Ensure HIPAA and IRB approved procedural compliance
• Trained and monitored student research assistants
• Office of Health Policy and AIDS Funding, New Orleans Health Department - Quality

• Worked with Tulane, UNICEF, and the Gate’s Foundation to conduct observational research in the DRC on reproductive outcomes in healthcare

• Worked directly with the quality manager to conduct quality assurance audits to evaluate program activities and outcomes
• Conducted a survey audit of Emergency Financial Assistance expenditures of an HIV/AIDS care provider in New Orleans
• Helped with the 2019 Ryan White Federal Grant

• English as a second language teacher, grades 9-12

• ESL Teacher, grades 9-12

Well rounded MPH program with personal emphasis on social determinants of health, data analysis, survey methodology, and clinical epidemiology

• 3.86 GPA - weighted