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Throughout my career, I have worked with professionals in science and in medicine as a data analyst, manuscript writer, and reviewer for peer-reviewed publication. I am a native Spanish speaker and can provide experienced support with writing or translating scientific documents to English or Spanish.
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Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Poverty Diagnostic Initiative | World Bank Group
Our team analyzes economic and geographic heterogeneity in diarrheal mortality risk and burden due to inadequate WASH.
The output of our analyses are used to better target WASH interventions for the subpopulations who need them most within LMICs.
As a part of a larger team, we completed assessments of the total diarrheal disease burden associated with ETEC and Shigella infections for low- to middle-income countries (LMICs). We also provided rotavirus burden heterogeneity and cost-effectiveness analyses to inform vaccine deployment strategies by international governments.
Hantaviruses are hosted by rodents and insectivores worldwide. Some viral species, such as Sin Nombre virus (SNV), can cause severe disease with case fatality rates around 37% to 40% and have no vaccine or cure. Since its identification in a 1993 outbreak in the Southwestern US, there has been extensive research to identify and predict the natural transmission patterns of SNV to prevent this disease in humans.
Designed and implemented large-scale field transmission experiments across multiple institutions (CDC, Emory University, and Montana Tech).
Funded field transmission project through obtaining several competitive grants and fellowships.
Resulted in novel findings about SNV transmission and infection in natural deer mouse populations and in the development of new molecular disease detection and evolutionary analysis tools
Ongoing projects are using these techniques and tools to examine the relationship of rodent community diversity to host stress and viral transmission, as well as to explore SNV evolution in deer mice throughout Montana across a decade of surveillance.