ELIZABETH AGREDANO

Environmental epidemiologist and data analyst with nearly four years of focused public health experience and over five years of research and applied data analysis expertise. Skilled in statistical programming (SAS, R), mapmaking (ArcGIS Pro and ArcMap), data management, and the application of rigorous analytical methods to large-scale health datasets. Demonstrated success in supporting peer-reviewed publications, developing high-quality reports, and contributing to quality assurance processes that improve data integrity and impact. Adept at collaborating with interdisciplinary teams and translating complex findings into actionable insights for research, policy, and operational use. Passionate about advancing public health through methodologically sound, equity-informed, and mission-driven research.

• 2025, Self-Service Data Preparation in SAS Viya, SAS Institute
• 2025, SAS Visual Analytics 1 for SAS Viya: Basics, SAS Institute
• 2021, Maternal and Child Health Certificate, UCLA Center of Excellence in Maternal & Child Health
• 2020, Summer Child Welfare Academy, UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children & Families

• 2024 - 2025, Volunteer, Dr. Lara Cushing’s Lab, Advising MPH student on thesis: Unequal Exposure: Investigating Drinking Water Contamination in California Public Schools. Provided analytic guidance to an MPH student’s thesis examining water contamination (e.g., lead, arsenic, nitrate, cadmium, DBCP, HAAs, PCE, perchlorate, TCE, TCP, TTH) and demographic disparities across CA schools. Advised on methods for data linking, verifying school-level water system matches, and curating large-scale environmental health datasets. Supported R-based data analysis, including descriptive summaries, visualization of lead test result distributions, and generation of publication-ready maps and tables. Guided statistical interpretation, conceptual framing, and graphic development to ensure clear and accurate communication of findings.
• 2021 - 2022, Volunteer, School of Dentistry, UCLA, Coded and performed thematic analysis of focus groups in NVIVO; translated Spanish focus groups into English.
• 2021 - 2023, Volunteer, Food Safety Unit, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Collected responses for vibrio and listeria case interviews, investigated salmonella outbreak through interviews and food line lists, performed giardia and salmonella surveillance and quality review of data input into IRIS.
• 2020 - 2021, Member, UCLA Epidemiology Department Anti-Racism Task Force, Performed qualitative analysis of member-proposed objectives and developed themes for actionable items, performed literature reviews on evidence-based best practices in recruitment and retention of BIPOC staff, co-wrote grant proposal for anti-racist methodologies workshop that earned a $500 award.
• 2019 - 2021, Member, UCLA PHSA Evaluation Committee, Developed 2019 – 2020 PHSA Student Survey, beta-tested survey, performed qualitative analysis of 730 responses (9 questions, n = 317), summarized themes and recommendations for dissemination which led to direct changes on behalf of the Fielding School of Public Health Student Affairs Office.

Maida, C. A., Marcus, M., Xiong, D., Ortega-Verdugo, P., Agredano, E., Huang, Y., Zhou, L., Lee, S. Y., Shen, J., Hays, R. D., Crall, J. J., & Liu, H., 2022, Investigating Perceptions of Teachers and School Nurses on Child and Adolescent Oral Health in Los Angeles County, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 8, 4722, Johnson, S.E. & Agredano, E., 04/2017, CSUF Campus Projects on Food Sustainability and Food Security, Panelist at the CSUF Food Culture & Justice Symposium, Fullerton, CA, Agredano, E., 06/2016, Exploring Equitable Sustainable Urban Food Systems Through Community-based Research: The Pathways of Hope-U-ACRE Collaboration, California Higher Education Sustainability Conference, Fullerton, CA, Agredano, E. & Johnson, S.E, 06/2015, Visualizing Relationships of Consumption: Food Security, Nutritional Attainment, Food Space, and Foodways in Orange County, CA, Orange County Food Access Coalition Meeting, Irvine, CA, Blake, J., Henry, S., Golzar, R., Agredano, E., Gomih, A., Ngo, C., Li, S., Brosnan, H., Chang, A., 07/2022, Estimated Vaccination Coverage among Persons Experiencing Homelessness (PEH): Fully Vaccinated by Los Angeles Zip Code, ESRI User Conference Map Gallery, Remote, Agredano, E., Benitez-Santos, N., & Barron, S., 09/2020, Geospatial Evaluation of Sexual and Reproductive Health Service Deserts in Los Angeles County, UCLA Maternal & Child Health Poster Symposium, Remote, Agredano, E. & Johnson, S.E., 04/2015, Visualizing Relationships of Consumption: Food Security, Nutritional Attainment, Food Space, and Foodways in Orange County, CA, Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, Agredano, E. & Contreras, S., 04/2014, Facilitating A Relationship with Fresh Foods and Vegetables: Urban Container Gardening in Low-Income Communities, CSUF Sustainability Symposium, Fullerton, CA, Agredano, E. & Contreras, S., 04/2014, Facilitating A Relationship with Fresh Foods and Vegetables: Urban Container Gardening in Low-Income Communities, CSUF Student Creative Activities and Research Day, Fullerton, CA, Agredano, E., 05/2013, Assessing the Viability of Alternative Food Sources in Combating Food Insecurity: Urban Container Gardening in Low-income Communities, CSUF U-ACRE Symposium, Fullerton, CA, Agredano, E., Woods, A.D., Zonneveld, J.P., Beatty, T.W., 04/2013, Primary Productivity and Paleoxygenation Following the End-Permian Mass Extinction: A Geochemical Analysis of Griesbachian Sediments from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (Alberta, Canada), CSUF Department of Geological Sciences Research Day, Fullerton, CA, Agredano, E., Woods, A.D., Zonneveld, J.P., Beatty, T.W., 11/2012, Primary Productivity and Paleoxygenation Following the End-Permian Mass Extinction: A Geochemical Analysis of Griesbachian Sediments from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (Alberta, Canada), Annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Charlotte, NC, Agredano, E. & Viriyasuksing, M., 06/2012, Geochemical Analysis of Gabbro Outcrop: Chiang Rai Province, Thailand, Chiang Mai University ESRT Research Day, Chiang Mai, TH

SAS, SAS Viya, R, SPSS, Stata, Regressions, multilevel/mixed-effects models, survival analysis, non-parametric tests, rank-rank slope, concentration curves, ANOVA, stepwise selection, interaction/quadratic terms, Surveillance design, case finding, outbreak investigations, risk factor identification, equity analysis, GIS-based hotspot mapping, ArcGIS Pro, Online, ArcMap, SAS Viya, Tableau, Excel, Microsoft Access, PostgreSQL, Adobe Creative Suite, Fluent in Spanish