Sophia Ramirez

Epidemiologist @Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Laurel, MD, US

Supported the White House Data Management COVID-19 Task Force as an Operations Lead to provide direct analytic support to inform executive decisions within 48 hours. Contributed to a landscape analysis of COVID-19 testing for the Diagnostics & Testing Team to inform the development of testing roadmaps within the CDC and the FDA. Completing rigorous quality control of publicly available State Profile Report and White House reports, and perform deep-dive analyses on areas of interest- Acted as the medical information lead to an internal COVID-19 Decision Support Center which provided the Executive Council with relevant and timely information and visualizations to aid in lab-wide COVID policy and decision-making- Contributed to the biodefense assessment for the ODASD for Chemical and Biological Defense in support of programming biodefense research, development, and acquisition investments. This included the facilitation of a virtual workshop with stakeholders and the collection and analysis of lessons learned documents and reports through a capability-based gap assessment- Performed a systematic review and conducted stakeholder interviews to aid in the development and production of an internal Technology Roadmap for disaster response and artificial intelligence communities and a journal publication- Collaborated with Johns Hopkins Medicine under an existing CDC contract to study social distancing among health care workers in high risk care settings- Authored Statement of Work for $1.8M in funding from the DOD and awarded a contract to conduct an epidemiological study examining potential adverse health associations within an Airbase cohort- Developing a KAP survey, completing a systematic review, and developing parameters for an operation room process model as part of the APL team with the CDC initiative, Project Firstline.