Francisca E.

Research Data Analyst @California Department of Public Health

Richmond, CA, US

Office of STIs and HCV• Supports the enhanced gonorrhea surveillance efforts for the CDC STD Surveillance Network (SSuN) as a SSuN/CGSS investigator in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, Assessment, and Evaluation Section.• Conducts interviews to obtain qualitative data on STI demographic and STI-related risk factors for the enhanced surveillance efforts of CDC’s sample based surveillance system, California Gonorrhea Surveillance System (CGSS).• Educates patients on STIs to promote sexual health and to prevent future infections.• Obtains patients’ clinical information from providers and confirms treatment aligns with CDC guidelines, performing medical abstraction of medical records and confidential morbidity reports.• Enters completed provider and patient interview forms into California Reportable Disease Information Exchange (CalREDIE), routinely cross checking co-infections across multiple jurisdictions per incident identification.• Collaborates with supervising epidemiologist to update CGSS protocols to improve data collection.Recipient of 2024 UCSF Staff Assembly Scholarship

San Diego State University

Master of Public Health - MPH, Epidemiology

University of Oregon

Bachelor of Arts - BA, General Science

University of Oregon

Bachelor of Arts - BA, Spanish Language and Linguistics

Davis Senior High School

High School Diploma

Instituto de Español Albayzín

Spanish Language and Literature