Jeanne Koffi-Bitty
Princeton,TX
Summary
Dynamic Disease Intervention Specialist with a proven track record at Dallas County Health & Human Services, excelling in infectious disease control and public health education. Skilled in data collection and management, I developed partnerships to enhance service delivery and streamlined reporting processes, significantly improving efficiency in case investigations and community outreach.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Disease Intervention Specialist
Dallas County Health & Human Services
11.2015 - Current
- Conduct case investigations, document case histories and possible infection sources using medical records
- Work closely with infection prevention control coordinator for surveillance purpose
- Interview cases, contacts and others in the community concerning personal behaviors and activities which contribute to disease transmission
- Make collateral contacts to obtain pertinent information concerning other individuals who may have been exposed or infected
- Counsel patients regarding medical and social services available
- Train new hires
- Provided refresher training on HIV labs to a group of 20 DIS
- Review provider reports for timeliness and consults with private health care providers and laboratories to verify reported data and elicit new HIV case reports
- Developed partnerships with community organizations to expand services and referrals.
- Coordinate labs assignments to other DIS
- Develop provider database and provide technical assistance to hospitals, laboratories and other health care providers to ensure compliance with testing and reporting procedures.
- Conduct seminars with physicians and clinics regarding HIV recommended testing algorithm
- Contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of the division by proposing ideas to streamline our internal processes to meet goal of case reporting within 30 days of lab collection date
- Revised the HIV reporting form in order to capture the most relevant information for a complete and accurate case report form.
- Wrote SAS codes for lab processing and monthly analysis of data.
Research Assistant
Carter BloodCare
09.2011 - 10.2015
- Performed systematic reviews of the literature and maintained reference management databases.
- Worked with research team to assess study design and develop viable methods for the research question and the target population
- Participated in the development of data collection instruments and related training materials.
- Prepared project plans including research protocols and assisted with Institutional Review Board (IRB) forms.
- Developed statistical analysis plan
- Assisted in improving data collection by shortening survey instruments and developing a better recruitment strategy which yielded to an increase in participation rate from 80 to 92%
- Developed and conducted surveys to participants
- Ensured proper data management systems was in place: Conducted data entry, data cleaning, data merging and analysis and maintained data-related documents, including SAS syntaxes and survey codebook
- Synthesized results of data analysis and compiled statistical reports
- Participated in the interpretation of study results.
- Prepared data as requested for stakeholder presentation and project reports.
Education
Master of Science - Health Informatics
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL10-2020
Master of Science - Public Health
University of North Texas Health Science Center
Fort Worth, TX05-2012
Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry Molecular Biology And Chemistry
Houston Baptist University
Houston, TX08-2008
Skills
- Infectious disease control
- Technical report writing
- Quality improvement initiatives
- Infection control measures
- Public health education
- Data collection and management
- Epidemiological analysis
- Analytical skills
Certification
Certified in Public Health (CPH)
Certificate in Healthcare Analytics
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
French
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Disease Intervention Specialist
Dallas County Health & Human Services
11.2015 - Current
Research Assistant
Carter BloodCare
09.2011 - 10.2015
Master of Science - Health Informatics
University of South Florida
Master of Science - Public Health
University of North Texas Health Science Center
Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry Molecular Biology And Chemistry
Houston Baptist University
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