Data analyst with 9+ years of experience in public health surveillance, federal contracting, and nonprofit analytics — building CDC data pipelines, teaching R at Emory and the CDC, and finding the story hidden in messy data.

• 🏥 CDC Global Immunization Division — Sr. Data Analyst (2016–2019)
• 🎓 Emory Rollins School of Public Health — Adjunct Instructor, Biostatistics
• 📊 CDC R Users Group — President & Trainer
• 🌐 Dharma Relief — Founding Operations Lead; $649K raised, 1.2M masks delivered to 173 hospitals

Languages & Analysis

Data Engineering & Infrastructure

ETL Pipelines  · 

Visualization & Reporting

AI & Machine Learning

NLP Pipelines  ·  Anomaly Detection

Production ETL pipeline for WHO/IMB across 79 countries. Invented a Spatial Binning method to fix a root data quality problem — one-size-fits-all metrics were hiding virus circulation in small provinces. Added 4 automated surveillance flags. Maintained on GitLab for 2 years. Published Vaccine X 2020.

Tools: R · SQL · WHO POLIS · WorldPop · GitLab  |  Code · Paper

Interactive Shiny app comparing Player Efficiency Ratings across leagues. No public WNBA dataset existed — hand-scraped player data from Wikipedia + scripted Basketball-Reference.com. Presented at R-Ladies Atlanta × Atlanta Hawks.

Tools: R Shiny · ggplot2 · tidyverse · Web Scraping  |  Code · Demo

Integrated 3 disconnected data sources (Donorbox, Luma, Excel) in R. Deduplicated donor identities, tracked payment history and tenure across records. Finding: only ~100 active donors. Directly drove new registration policy + membership survey.

Tools: R · Data Integration · Excel

Highlights:

• Chaired CDC R Users Group (1,000+ members across HHS); coordinated first agency-wide R training with 130 enrollees spanning all CDC campuses
• Co-developed the Zika Pregnancy Registry database management system for national multi-site birth defect surveillance
• Modernized a legacy SAS pipeline for Zika surveillance into R + SQL Server; built longitudinal newborn growth analysis in R Shiny
• Conducted large-scale quantitative simulation modeling on ~800,000-entity network data for NIH R21 epidemiological modeling project (UW)
• Sole instructor for BIOS 544: Introduction to R Programming at Emory; lab instructor for biostatistics courses serving ~650 incoming MPH/MSPH students annually

Publications

• VanderEnde KV, Voorman A, Khan S, Anand A, Snider C, Goel A, Wassilak S. New analytic approaches for analyzing and presenting polio surveillance data. Vaccine X. 2020. [PMC7090369]
• Lind JN, Interrante JD, Ailes EC, Gilboa SM, Khan S et al. Maternal Use of Opioids During Pregnancy and Congenital Malformations: A Systematic Review. Pediatrics. 139(6), 2017.
• Zaman K, Sack DA, Yunus M, Khan S et al. Immunogenicity of inactivated and live attenuated poliovirus vaccines in a birth cohort in Bangladesh. Vaccine. 2021.

Awards & Certifications

• 🏅 2017 CDC Award for Science and Program Excellence in Emergency Response — Domestic Zika Pregnancy and Birth Defects Surveillance
• 📋 Excellence in Volunteer Management — Florida Association for Volunteer Resource Management (FAVRM), 2025

Capstone: Development of a Time Monitoring Application for Birth Defect Registries

• Dharma Relief — Founding Operations Lead (2020–2026): Led COVID-19 PPE supply chain — raised $649K in 7 weeks, delivered 1.2 million masks to 173 hospitals across North America; secured transportation grant
• IRC Refugee Resettlement Volunteer (2022–Present): Housing setup, tutoring, transportation, and community integration for refugee families

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