Sarah Hopkins Gieszl, MHS

Aug 2014 - Aug 2015 

• Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center, Health Disparities Fellow (NIH funded), Arizona State University, Phoenix AZ

Aug 2008 - May 2011 

• Johns Hopkins University, Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Research Fellowship 
  

May 2011

• Johns Hopkins University, Public Health Studies Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Research 

May 2012 - Present

• Adjunct Research Associate, Dept. of OB-GYN, Maricopa Integrated Health Systems (MIHS), Phoenix, AZ 
• Designed survey instruments, data platform, and assist in maintenance of comprehensive mixed methods data base to support cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis of refugee women's low uptake of prenatal services and the effect on obstetric outcomes across pregnancies 
• Data base (continually updated) includes births, since 2008-present, at the Refugee Women's Health Care Clinic 
• 75+ clinical data points to will link birth outcomes to future births at the clinic (use of unique ID) 
• Retrospective Chart Review, 2008 ChartMAXX to present EPIC; SWOT analysis; semi-structured and individual interview focus groups of multigravida refugee women
• Program Evaluator for MIHS project: Bridging the Gap in Health Literacy among the Burmese and Bhutanese Communities in Arizona
• Trainer for 2014 ACA enrollment periods for multi-lingual Community Health Advisors from Burma and Bhutan to work as Survey Administrators  under the Affordable Care Act. 
• Developed survey from Focus Groups with Burmese and Bhutanese refugee communities in Arizona 
• Measured outcomes, effectiveness and enrollee experience during the Affordable Care Act (ACA 2014) initial enrollment using Community Health Advisors from their own community

Aug 2013 - Aug 2014

• Health Disparities Fellow (NIH funded), ASU, Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (SIRC), Phoenix, AZ  
• Faculty Mentors: Crista Johnson, M.D. , MSc, FACOG ; Professor Eric Hedberg, Ph.D. Biostatistician 
• Designed, implemented, and evaluated a new data platform to link quantitative (clinical)  data abstracted from medical records with qualitative data from focus groups, patient experience surveys, and patient interviews to support mixed-methods analysis of refugee women's prenatal use and obstetric outcome 
• Fellowship work supports ongoing research project at MIHS, Dept. of Ob-Gyn 
• Generated Posters for conference sessions and manuscript papers (3) to be published; 2 under submission

Aug 2008 - May 2011

• Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Research Fellowship 
• Faculty Mentor: Jane Guyer, Ph.D, Chair Department of Anthropology 
• IRB approved field research to identify social factors that sustain the illegal and dangerous practice of female circumcision 
• Spent 90 days conducting individual interviews (141), focus groups, village listening sessions in the Pokot, Sebei and Tepth Communities of Central and Eastern Uganda 
• Work resulted in mapping financial transactions across communities where circumcision is practiced

Jan 2010

• Independent Study, Johns Hopkins University Winter Intersession in Ghana
• Partnered with Engenderhealth and Ghana National Health Insurance System  to conduct interviews of 30 women seeking an obstetric fistula repair in Accra, Kumasi, Ho and Cape Coast 
• Paper: Using a 'Cultural Lens'  to Discern the Social Dimensions of Women's Decision Making about Obstetric Fistula Repair' 

Jan 2008

• Harvard School of Public Health Visiting Student: Winter Intersession Field Practicum in Bangladesh
• Faculty Mentor: Richard A. Cash, MD, MPH
• Participant on student team located at BRAC and ICDDR-B examining evaluation of rural health projects 
• Independent study paper for Johns Hopkins University: "Obstetric Fistula: Understanding Women's Experiences in the Context of a Liminality; Report of Field study in Bangladesh".
•  Interviews with surgeons and Bengali women before and after fistula repair
• Observed 5 fistula repair surgeries at the Dhaka Capital Hospital 

May - Aug 2012 ; Aug 2013 - Aug 2014

• Refugee Women's Health Care Clinic, Maricopa Integrated Health Services, Phoenix, AZ. 
• Medical Kiswahili Translator
• Shadow, OBGYN, Dr. Crista Johnson; Nurse Practitioner, Lisa Stahr, LNP, CNM 
• Attended Prenatal visits
• Provided Scribe services in EPIC for refugee women's patient demographic information 

Aug 2013 - Jan 2014

• Refugee Women's Health Care Clinic, Maricopa Integrated Health Services, Phoenix, AZ. 
  
• Designed, Implemented and Trained Cultural Health Navigators on field tested Press-Gainey Adapted Patient Experience Survey.
• Translated in 6 Languages: Swahili, Kirundi, Burmese, Arabic, Somali, English; continued use in 2015, 2016  

Jan 2008-Jan 2013

• Field Work and Research in Bangladesh, Ghana and Uganda
• Direct interaction in interviews, focus groups, and surgery viewing with patients  

Aug 2013 - Present

• Junior League of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
  
• Committee Board Member for ROCKETS 
• Instructor for STEM curriculum training for Title 1 School Teachers in Arizona 
• Monthly Lead Instructor at Arizona Children's Science Museum classes to teach low income pre school and grade school aged children science concepts 

Jan 2011 - July 2013

• Johns Hopkins Incentive Mentoring Program (currently Thread), Baltimore, MD.
  
• Thread seeks to extend school based tutoring to the home by providing at-risk youths and their family with a mentor for both academic and social support to youths struggling with poverty, drugs and violence
• Mentor, 2011-2013 
•  Head of Household 2013-14; supervised mentors and coordinating program activities with child's families

Aug 2009 - Dec 2012

• Johns Hopkins Waverly Tutorial Project, Baltimore, MD
  
• Tutored inner city youth in math and reading 
• The project received the "Change Maker Award" in 2011 from the Enoch Pratt Free Libraries 

Aug 2010 - May 2011

• Keswick Multi Care Center Dementia Unit Volunteer, Baltimore, MD 
• Initiated the "Letter Writing Project" to assist residents in writing letters to their family each holiday and celebration event. 

Jan - May 2010

• Catholic Charities, Nashville, TN
  
• Somali Refugee Tutor (Language Kiswahili and English)
• Student Coordinator for Community Health Fair, Hypertension and Diabetes Screening, Nashville, TN 

Misc

• Multiple philanthropic 10k events over the past 10 years in Phoenix, Baltimore and Nashville 
  

May 2011

• Johns Hopkins University Young Alumni Leadership Symposium 
  
• One of 70 Johns Hopkins University Senior Students Selected

May 2010- May 2011

• Omicron Delta Kappa (Collegiate Honorary Leadership Society), Johns Hopkins University 
  

Jan 2009- May 2011

• Phi Mu Sorority, Johns Hopkins University 
  
• Member: 2009-2011
• Chairman: Risk Management, 2010
• Implemented alcohol & drug abuse awareness program  

• National Institute on Minority Health and Disparities Grantees Conference, Dec 2014, Washington, D.C.
• Poster Presentation: Towards Better Understanding of Refugee Women's Health Disparities: An Integrated Mixed-Methods Data Platform to Improve Analysis of Refugee Women's Underutilization of Prenatal Care Across Their Reproductive Lives
• America's Essentials Hospitals: Innovations Summit on Social Networks and Population Health; Oct 2014, Washington, D.C.
• Speaker, Best Practices in Promoting Refugee Women's Health 
• North American Refugee Health Conference, Jun 2014, Rochester, NY
• Poster Presentation: A New, Integrated Mixed-Methods Data Platform to Improve Understanding of Why Refugee Women Underutilize Prenatal Care Across Their Reproductive Lives
• Moderator, Round Table on culturally competent reproductive health care for refugee women 
• Johns Hopkins University, Department of Anthropology, April 24, 2014, Baltimore MD
• Speaker, How Ethnography Informs Public Health Research
• Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center, 12th Annual Research Conference: People on the move: Journeys of Resilience towards Health Equity; April 4, 2014, Phoenix, AZ 
• Poster Presentation: Improved Research Design: A Data Platform to Improve Understanding of the Reasons Refugee Women Underutilize Prenatal Care Across Their Reproductive Lives
• Johns Hopkins University, Department of Undergraduate Public Health Studies, Guest Lecturer; April 24, 2013, Baltimore, MD
• Fundamentals of Epidemiology 
• Lecture: Using Epi Tools to Look at Environmental and Behavioral Science Topics: The Example of Male Circumcision for Prevention of HIV Transmission, Prevention
• Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Seminar Series, March 28, 2013, Baltimore, MD
• Panel Participant, Fostering Community Involvement in Health Disparities Research
• Case Study with William Brieger, Ph.D, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Feb 2013 
• A Constraint Analysis of Obstacles to Eliminating Female Circumcision: The Role of Financial Transactions Across Three Practicing Communities in Uganda
• Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Dec 10 2012, Baltimore, MD 
• Guest Lecturer Observational Epidemiology
• Lecture: Practical Application: Selection Bias 
• Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Global Health Day April 5, 2012, Baltimore, MD
• Blue Ribbon Award, Poster Session: A Social and Economic Transactional Analysis to Help Explain the Persistence of Female Circumcision
• News Story: Crants, Megan. "Woodrow Wilson Scholar Sarah Gieszl travels to Africa to Help Women in Need". The Johns Hopkins University News-Letter (Baltimore, MD) 10 Feb. 2011: A4. Print. 
  
• Johns Hopkins University Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Fellows Annual Program, April 29, 201, Baltimore, MD
• Faculty Selected Student Speaker, Reflections on My Wilson Experience 
• Poster Session: Through an Anthropological Lens: Obstetric Fistula and Female Circumcision
• Johns Hopkins University 2nd Annual Public Health Undergraduate Conference, April 9, 2011, Baltimore, MD
• Faculty Selected Student Speaker, The Female Circumcision Abandonment Process: A Multicultural Look at the Effectiveness of Alternatives to Female Circumcision 
• Poster Session: How Effective Are Alternative Rites of Passage as Substitutes for Female Circumcision Rituals?"
• Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Global Health Day Feb 24, 2011, Baltimore, MD
• Grand Prize Photography Competition- Human Rights Category 
• Photo: The Girls Being Cut": Pokot Female Circumcision, January 2099, Bukwo Region, Uganda 
• Belmont University Undergraduate Research Symposium, May 8, 2010, Nashville, TN
• Speaker, The Impact of University Expansion on Surrounding Communities: A Community Impact Survey

Statistical Analysis Programs: 

• SAS 
• Proficient; Macro, Automation 
• STATA 
• Proficient; Macro 
• SPSS 
• Undergraduate; working proficiency 

Data Base Management and Design:  

• Access; Excel; Word; VBA (extract, link, automate) SurveyMonkey; StatTransfer 

Electronic Medical Records Systems: 

• EPIC
• Chart MAXX 
• Hospital Discharge Data (Arizona) 
• Arizona Abortion Reporting System 

IRB Compliant Biomedical Research Projects: 

• application start through close out phases; renewals; revisions
• Domestic and developing countries 

Geographical Information System (GIS): 

• Working Proficiency   

Literature Reviews: 

• QUOSA; Embase; SciVerse; TargetInsights; RefWorks 

Qualitative Methods: 

• SWOT analysis, focus groups, structured and semi-structured interviews, patient interviews, community dialogue sessions 
• Population Needs Assessments, surveillance/monitoring studies
• Logic Model based evaluation Health Programs
• Constraint Analysis 
• Community Based Participatory Research 

Computer Skills:

• Microsoft Office Package; Adobe Photoshop; Final Cut Pro; Prezi 

Language Skills: 

• Kiswahili, Intermediate Proficiency/Working Medical Proficiency 

Nov 2015

• Arizona Department of Health Services: 
  
• Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI); Introduction Certified; Health Services HIPPA Certified 

May 2013 

• Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
  
• Graduate Certificates: Tropical Medicine; Health Emergencies in Large Populations; Global Health; Humanitarian Assistance 

May 2012-Present

• Maricopa Integrated Health Services 
• Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Certified: Human Subjects Training (IRB); Conflicts of Interest 

May 2013 - Aug 2015

• SC del Sol Soccer Club Coach, Phoenix AZ  
• Girls' competitive youth club teams; U10 and U12 

Sep 2013 - Mar 2014

• All Saint's Episcopal Day School, Phoenix AZ
• Girls Volleyball Coach,  Grades 5 and 6 Girls Basketball Coach, Grades 5 and 6

Aug 2007- Dec 2010

• Member Johns Hopkins University Varsity Women's Soccer Team , Baltimore MD
  
• Starting Defensive Center Back (2008-2010) 
• 3 Centennial Conference Championships; 3 Div-III NCAA Playoffs
• NCAA Academic All-American Honor Roll (2008-2010) 
• NSCAA All-Mid Atlantic second team (2008), third team (2009) 
• ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American (2008, 2009) 

Misc Hobbies: 

• Hospice Dog Foster Home for Local Arizona Animal Rescues; Photography; Running