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emilytyszka/README.md

Read Me!

About Me

I'm Emily Tyszka (pronounced TISH-ka). I work as an Epidemiologist for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Syndromic Surveillance team, focusing on infectious disease. I was also formerly the Research Analyst for MADPH's Microbiology Division and have completed some work in physical activity among people with multiple sclerosis during my MPH.

Guide to my repositories:

  • MASPHL-Syndromic-Surveillance: Syndromic Surveillance projects conducted at DPH (CURRENT WORK - IN PROGRESS)
    • Analysis of lag between visit arrive date-time and date-time of first message with a COVID-19 ICD10 diagnosis.
    • Comparison of COVID-19 wastewater concentrations, COVID-19 alerts via MassNotify, and syndromic data of COVID-19-related visits
    • Adoption of code by Kendall et al. to quantify the impact of exposure notifications on COVID-19 cases and deaths in MA
    • Adaptation of the Moving Epidemic Method for respiratory illness tracking in Massachusetts (working off R projects kindly supplied by Sara Chronister and Michael Sheppard)
    • MADPH Pan-Respiratory Dashboard Data Reporting
    • Miscellaneous data pulls and projects
  • MASPHL-Wastewater-Analysis: Assisting the development of the DPH Wastewater lab
    • Internal Reporting
    • Interlaboratory Comparisons for Validation
    • Variant Frequency Analyses (in conjunction with the Sequencing and Bioinformatics Core)
    • Miscellaneous Projects
  • MASPHL-Clinical-Microbiology: Ongoing support to the DPH Clinical Microbiology Lab
    • Internal Reporting
    • External Reporting
    • Miscellaneous Projects
  • MASPHL-Tuberculosis: Routine reporting for the DPH Mycobacteriology Lab
    • Internal Reporting
  • MASPHL-Whole-Genome-Sequencing: Multi-lab projects conducted with the Sequencing and Bioinformatics Core
    • CT Values Analysis
    • Variant Frequency Analysis (in conjunction with the Wastewater lab)
  • MASPHL-Misc
    • Activities for lab week 2023
  • CWRU-Briggs-Multiple-Sclerosis: Graduate capstone (thesis) work on physical activity in persons with multiple sclerosis
  • CWRU-Pope-Postpartum-Depression: Student project examining potential determinants of postpartum depression in individuals who gave birth in the early COVID-19 pandemic.

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  1. MASPHL-Wastewater-Analysis MASPHL-Wastewater-Analysis Public

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  2. MASPHL-Clinical-Microbiology MASPHL-Clinical-Microbiology Public

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  3. MASPHL-Whole-Genome-Sequencing MASPHL-Whole-Genome-Sequencing Public

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  4. MASPHL-Syndromic-Surveillance MASPHL-Syndromic-Surveillance Public

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  5. MASPHL-Tuberculosis MASPHL-Tuberculosis Public

  6. CWRU-Briggs-Multiple-Sclerosis CWRU-Briggs-Multiple-Sclerosis Public