Monica Thomas
Summary
Public Health professional facilitating disease prevention, implement preventive measures, provide group support, proficient in food and public safety, occupational hazards, community and deployment health.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Public Health Supervisor
United States Air Force, USAF
06.2021 - Current
- Manages and performs public health activities and programs including food safety and defense inspections.
- Does sanitary condition inspections, ensures food origin and distribution are from approved sources.
- Ensure food is wholesome and follows contract compliance.
- Makes recommends for disposition of deteriorated and distressed food.
- Completes Food Vulnerability Assessments to prevention unintentional, as well as intentional contamination.
- Inspects rations, collects and ships food for laboratory analysis.
- Investigate customer complaints and food recalls.
- Plan and conducts sanitary evaluations of public facilities and determines compliance with sanitary standards and reports discrepancies.
- Provides food handler, disease outbreak, and community health educations and training.
- Sectional supervisor responsible for six personnel on food and public inspections, food vulnerability assessments, conducting reports, reaching out to facilities on food recalls, and briefing the information.
NCOIC COMMUNITY HEALTH
United States Air Force, USAF
04.2020 - 05.2021
- Organizes and assists in communicable disease prevention and control programs.
- Advises professionals on disease control measures.
- Updates and completes associated medical records and forms.
- Controls disease transmission through patient interviews, epidemiological investigations, patient education and community health outreach programs.
- Investigates disease outbreaks, collects and compiles data and identifies, evaluates, and reports trends.
- Evaluates risk of vector borne diseases and conducts pest and vector disease surveillance.
- Monitors compliance and effectiveness of vector and pest management control programs.
- Recommends prevention and control measures. Provides education and training on prevention and control of vector borne diseases.
Public Health Technician
United States Air Force, USAF
02.2017 - 03.2020
- Assisted in Occupational Health Programs.
- Ensures personnel receive appropriate pre-employment, periodic and termination occupational examinations, and conducts occupational audiometric evaluations.
- Provides consultation to supervisors and workers in personal hygiene, occupational hazards, hazard communications and personal protective equipment.
- Monitors results of occupational health examinations to detect adverse trends.
- Investigates occupational illness and advises healthcare providers on workplace hazards.
- Manages and provides quality control of occupational health examinations.
- Conducted surveys and compliance investigations to determine compliance with health and safety standards.
- Plans, organizes, and conducts public health medical readiness programs.
- Prepares and conducts medical intelligence preventive medicine briefings.
- Reduce health risks from communicable diseases, food, improper field hygiene and sanitation, and environmental exposures.
Public Health Journey
United States Air Force, USAF
11.2015 - 01.2017
- Provides administrative oversight to the PIMR program.
- Gathers data, produces rosters and reports for Primary Care Management Teams, Unit personnel and both medical and line leadership.
- Provides immunizations policy input to the Population Health Function.
- Assists healthcare provider teams with interpretation and application of medical standards to determine medical qualifications for occupational duty, worldwide duty, mobility status, flying status, and special duty.
- Aided in administrative management of duty limiting condition.
Public Health Apprentice
United States Air Force, USAF
04.2014 - 10.2015
- Obtained and trained in all areas of Public Health. Including, but not limited to food safety and food defense; public facility inspections; communicable diseases; entomology program; occupational health; deployment health; and preventive health assessments. Conducting briefings, interviews, inspections, tracking trend analysis, and reporting and logging medical data.
Education
Associate of Science - Public Health
University of Maryland of Global Campus
Nebraska11.2024
Skills
- Health education
- Program management
- Infection control and prevention
- Health care administration
- Computer skills
- Communication and Interpersonal skills
- Teamwork
- Time management
Timeline
Public Health Supervisor
United States Air Force, USAF
06.2021 - Current
NCOIC COMMUNITY HEALTH
United States Air Force, USAF
04.2020 - 05.2021
Public Health Technician
United States Air Force, USAF
02.2017 - 03.2020
Public Health Journey
United States Air Force, USAF
11.2015 - 01.2017
Public Health Apprentice
United States Air Force, USAF
04.2014 - 10.2015
Associate of Science - Public Health
University of Maryland of Global Campus
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