Academic & Professional Experience

Last updated: January 31, 2026

Education

University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Epidemiology
June 2024

• Doctoral Dissertation: “State-of-the-ART Care: Revolutionizing Medication Delivery in Rural Settings with a Person-Centered Care Approach”
• Predoctoral Fellow, Biostatistics, Epidemiologic, and Bioinformatic Training in Environmental Health Training Grant, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, U.S. National Institutes of Health (June 2020-2022)
• Diversity Research Supplement Awardee, Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research, National Institute of Mental Health, U.S. National Institutes of Health (June 2022-2024)

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY
Master of Public Health in Epidemiology, Applied Biostatistics Certificate
May 2020

• Master’s Thesis: “Network analysis of livestock trade data to assess potential for zoonotic disease spread in Western Asia” (Grade: A)
• Relevant coursework: Epidemiology I-III, Applied Regression I & II, Analysis of Categorical Data, Data Science, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Epi Modeling of Infectious Diseases, Advanced GIS and Spatial Analysis, Pharmaceutical Statistics, Machine Learning for Epidemiology and Public Health

McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Bachelor of Science in Physical (Health) Geography, Economics
May 2018

• Relevant coursework: Global Environmental Health & Burden of Disease, Economic Evaluation of Health Programs, Fundamentals of Global Health, Advanced Topics in Health Geography

Skills & Certifications

Statistical, Spatial, and Bioinformatics Analysis: EpiInfo, R (advanced), SAS (basic), Stata (basic); ArcGIS, GeoDa, QGIS; Geneious Prime, Shell Scripting
Microsoft Office: Excel, PowerPoint, Word
Languages: English (full fluency), Mandarin Chinese (moderate fluency)
Certifications: CITI Human Subjects Protection and HIPAA Patient Privacy

Non-Profit & Government Public Health Research Experience (June 2018-Present)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer
July 2024 – Present

Hawai’igned to the Disease Outbreak Control Division, Hawai‘i State Department of Health, Honolulu, HI

• Serving as an active-duty Scientist Officer (Lieutenant rank) in an Epidemiologist role with the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
• Performed an evaluation of the dengue surveillance system of Hawai‘i and wrote a medical advisory to implement new criteria for dengue testing approval at the Hawai‘i State Department of Health (HDOH)
• Conducted environmental sampling during a norovirus outbreak on a remote hiking trail in Kauai, prepared samples for shipment to laboratories, and gave presentations on the environmental investigation to internal HDOH and external audiences
• Engaged in the November 2024 HPAI H5N1 Hawai‘i partial incident response activation, led the 2025 HDOH Bird Flu Survey to understand the knowledge, attitudes, practices of Hawai‘i backyard flock owners and wild bird rescuers around bird flu, analyzed and shared findings with interagency partners and the community, did media interviews about the HDOH Bird Flu Survey findings
• During a 2025 measles case investigation, I conducted calls with exposed contacts, created and maintained a line list to investigate exposed contacts, coordinated with the CDC Emergency Operations Center during weekend standby duty to coordinate communication with involved airlines, summarized response metrics daily, facilitated response coordination meetings, and wrote an Epi-X to call for cases from other states
• Co-led the Epidemiology Team for Hawai‘i County’s first CASPER survey in May 2025: conducted random sampling of Census tracts and households, created cluster maps for field team use, drafted survey questionnaire, analyzed survey responses, and co-authored the final report
• In collaboration with an Infection Preventionist and the Rat Lungworm Disease Working Group, I developed healthcare provider and community outreach materials for rat lungworm disease, updated the HDOH website on rat lungworm disease, first-authored a descriptive 10-year review of rat lungworm disease cases in Hawai‘i, and co-authored a laboratory validation study of a more sensitive test for rat lungworm disease diagnosis
• Led a study examining the association of sociodemographic characteristics and severity of disease among infant RSV cases in Hawai‘i, and examining the impact of the introduction of two RSV prevention products in 2023 on infant hospitalization and emergency room visits

Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Seattle, WA
Research Assistant
PI: Drs. Jennifer Otten and Marie Spiker, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences & the Center for Public Health Nutrition
December 2022 – September 2023

• Conducted data analyses for the WAFOOD Survey to monitor the economic impact of COVID-19 and related inflationary food price fluctuations on Washington State residents’ food security and needs
• Produced a report that directly informed the Washington State Department of Agriculture during the Washington State legislative session in early 2023
• Primary tasks included cleaning and analyzing WAFOOD survey data, preparing written and visual components of preliminary (February 2023) WAFOOD wave 4 and final (June 2023) longitudinal and cross-sectional reports, harmonizing data across four WAFOOD survey waves, and conducting statistical analyses for and co-authoring a manuscript for submission to a peer-reviewed journal

EpiPointe LLC, Cary, NC
Epidemiologist (Remote)
PI: Dr. Falgunee Parekh
October 2022 – Present

• Working in collaboration with Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University in Punjab, India to develop an innovative training network program focused on the under-represented workforce of Women Veterinary Health Professionals (WVHPs) and Women Farmers (WF) to enhance capacity to rapidly detect outbreaks of high consequence pathogens
• Designing content for multi-day workshops in India to train WVHPs on One Health Epidemiology and laboratory biosafety and biosecurity topics
• Assisting in selection of WVHPs to implement pilot workshops for WFs in their districts
• Writing and disseminating monthly short trainings/communications after workshops to reinforce learning outcomes, promote recruitment, and ensure retention of WVHPs and WFs
• Developing and implementing pre- and post-engagement evaluation metrics of participants to measure capacity, knowledge, awareness, strengths, weaknesses, and likelihood of implementation success

International Clinical Research Center, Seattle, WA
Research Assistant
PI: Dr. Jennifer Ross, Department of Global Health
September 2021 – June 2022

• Worked on a HIV-Tuberculosis (TB) mathematical modeling study to estimate the health impact in HIV infections averted of combination prevention and linkage to antiretroviral therapy for serodiscordant couples in TB-affected households in 4 TB-HIV high-burden countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda)
• Conducted 2 systematic literature reviews to identify mathematical model parameters for the study
• Managed study literature database and performed data extraction of past studies
• Calculated the prevalence of HIV in adult household contacts of TB patients in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda
• Co-authored a manuscript based on study findings

Chelan-Douglas Health District, East Wenatchee, WA
Epidemiologist (Deployed)
Supervisor: Dr. Luke Davies, Chelan-Douglas Health District Administrator
August 2021 – September 2021

• Deployed as a University of Washington Student Epidemic Action Leaders (SEAL) Team member on a 6-week assignment in Wenatchee to understand more about long COVID through data collection and advanced analyses
• Performed a rapid literature review and wrote up a summary report on long COVID
• Created a centralized COVID-19 case database for the health district
• Analyzed data on long COVID cases in the Chelan-Douglas Health District
• Assisted with COVID-19 case investigations and test notifications across the health district during the Delta variant surge in cases and at vaccination clinics

International Clinical Research Center, Seattle, WA
Research Assistant
PI: Drs. Carey Farquhar and Joshua Herbeck, Department of Global Health
September 2020 – September 2021

• Worked on various research tasks for the Study of HIV, HCV, APS and Phylogenetics for PWID (SHARP) which seeks to determine whether assisted partner services can find, test, and link to care the sexual and injection partners of people who inject drugs that are HIV-positive in Kenya
• Performed phylogenetic and statistical analyses to elucidate risk factors for onward transmission of both HIV and hepatitis C in this population
• First-authored a paper examining characteristics of index participants that result in greater onward transmission of HIV in sexual and drug-injection partners
• Co-authored a paper describing viral suppression of drugs used to treat HIV in the study population
• Worked with co-investigators on manuscript development, literature reviews, and parameterization of HIV epidemiological models
• Prepared the IRB application for a supplemental study on COVID-19 testing in this population

EpiPointe LLC, Cary, NC
Epidemiologist (Remote)
PI: Dr. Falgunee Parekh
April 2021 – July 2021

• Worked in collaboration with FHI Clinical and Harvard Medical School to conduct Site Feasibility assessments for the epidemiology study that will support a Phase 3 tuberculosis vaccine trial sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute
• Assisted in development of the Feasibility and Site Capacity Assessment Tool to assess tuberculosis epidemiology at the site and catchment area levels
• Developed a systematic method to score key criteria in the Feasibility and Site Capacity Assessment Tool
• Scored site responses according to the systematic method developed
• Provided topic areas for subject matter experts to follow-up with sites based on evaluation of survey responses
• Contributed to a final report that summarizes the scoring process, results of scoring, ranking of sites according to key criteria, and lessons learned
• Worked on a manuscript for scientific publication in conjunction with the team to describe the assessment and scoring methodology

Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
COVID-19 Literature Situation Report Research Assistant
PI: Drs. Jennifer Ross and Brandon Guthrie, Department of Global Health
June 2020 – June 2021

• Contributed to the production of a daily summaries and in-depth reports of literature related to the COVID-19 outbreak
• Tasks included a daily systematic search of published and pre-print literature, importation of citations, sorting of references into priority categories, identification of 10-20 articles per day to summarize, writing and editing of article summaries, and distribution of a daily literature digest

Columbia University, New York, NY
Department of Epidemiology Graduate Research Assistant
PI: Dr. Jeanine Genkinger, Department of Epidemiology
September 2019 – September 2020

• Worked on a new research study of nutrition, early detection, and cancer risk and survival (primarily focused on ovarian and pancreatic cancers) for 34 international cohort studies included in the Pooling Project of Prospective Studies of Diet and Cancer (DCPP) of Harvard University
• Routine tasks included assisting with NIH research grant submissions, performing word processing for scientific manuscripts, conducting data analysis and literature searches, updating research databases, preparing PowerPoint presentations, and creating tables, graphs, and spreadsheets
• Co-authored: 1. an epidemiology methods manuscript on the data standardization process for comparison across five different dietary indices and 2. a systematic review on risk factors for double primary breast and ovarian cancer in women across the risk spectrum

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY
Teaching Assistant, EHSC P8321: Introduction to Data Science for Environmental Health
Professor: Dr. Tiffany Sanchez, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
March – May 2020

• This team-taught second quarter Spring 2020 course covered both conceptual and practical topics in data science related to environmental health sciences including web scraping/text mining, working with spatial data, prediction models, and omics
• Worked with various instructors to develop weekly modules, coded weekly lab and homework assignments in R, led students through in-class coding labs, and troubleshooted student questions during weekly office hours

EcoHealth Alliance, New York, NY
EcoHealthNet Research Exchange Intern
PI: Dr. Kevin Olival, Vice President for Research & Dr. Kendra Phelps, Senior Scientist
May – August 2019

• Worked specifically on the Western Asia Bat Research Network Project (WAB-Net) which is fully funded by the Cooperative Biological Engagement Program of the United States Department of Defense – Defense Threat Reduction Agency
• Completed a broad zoonotic disease literature review and researched pre-existing, publicly available datasets (i.e., Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database, World Organisation for Animal Health’s World Animal Health Information System) to use
• Conducted a network analysis on livestock trade and prevalence of three zoonotic diseases between 20 Western Asia countries in R, then transitioned the project to become my master’s thesis
• Collected diagnostic samples from wild-caught bats for coronavirus surveillance in Turkey and Jordan in August 2019

National Center for Disaster Preparedness, New York, NY
Graduate Research Assistant
Supervisor: Dr. Thomas Chandler, Research Scientist
January – May 2019

• Built an open-access topical application using ArcGIS which will serve as supplemental material to FEMA Community Housing Recovery trainings throughout the United States
• Curated housing, community, and natural hazards Geographic Information Systems (GIS) assets based on existing literature regarding community housing recovery after disasters
• Cleaned and manipulated curated datasets in Stata
• Spatially joined housing, community, and natural hazards GIS datasets to a Census Tract geodatabase
• Invited to give an oral presentation on this novel tool as part of the Disaster Clusters session at the Earth Science Information Partners Annual Meeting in Tacoma, WA in July 2019

U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, DC
National Park Service, Office of Public Health, Disease Prevention and Response Epidemiology Branch Epidemiology Student Trainee
Supervisor: Dr. Maria Said, Epidemiology Branch Chief
June – August 2018

• Developed content (e.g., infectious disease fact sheets) for the National Park Service internal and external websites
• Evaluated Appalachian Trail’s current norovirus surveillance system to identify strengths and gaps
• Used CDC software EpiInfo to develop and deploy disease detection survey for norovirus cases in Yellowstone National Park
• Performed fieldwork (tick dragging) for multi-year CDC Lyme disease surveillance project in Rock Creek Park, Maryland

Selected Publications

Buszkiewicz J.H., Tseng A.S., Dai J., Ismach A., Beese S., Collier S.M., et al. (2025) Association between early-pandemic food assistance use and subsequent food security trajectories among households in Washington State during the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS One 20(5): e0321585. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0321585

Tseng A.S., Barnabas R.V., van Heerden A., Ntinga X., Sahu M. Costs of home-delivered antiretroviral therapy refills for persons living with HIV: evidence from a pilot randomized controlled trial in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. PLOS Global Public Health. 2024 Dec 30;4(12): e0003368. doi:10.1371/journal.pgph.0003368

Tseng A.S., Heitner J.A., Szpiro A.A., van Heerden A., Ntinga X., Krows M.L., Barnabas R.V. Comparing the environmental costs of home-delivered vs. standard clinic-based antiretroviral therapy refills for people living with in rural South Africa.

Tseng A.S., Mugwanya K.K., Szpiro A.A., van Heerden A., Ntinga X., Schaafsma T.T., et al. Estimating the effect of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on self-reported antiretroviral therapy use and late refill visits among people living with HIV in rural South Africa. JAIDS J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2024 Aug 1. doi:10.1097/QAI.0000000000003431

Zhang M., Tseng A.S., Anguzu G., Barnabas R.V., Davis J.L., Mujugira A., Flaxman A.D., Ross J.M. Modeled estimates of HIV-serodifferent couples in tuberculosis-affected households in four sub-Saharan African countries. Sharan R, editor. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2024 May 2;4: e0002609. doi:10.1371/journal.pgph.0002609

Tseng A.S., Roberts M.C., Weissman S.J., Rabinowitz P.M. Study of heavy metal resistance genes in Escherichia coli isolates from a marine ecosystem with a history of environmental pollution (arsenic, cadmium, copper, and mercury). PLOS ONE. 2023 Nov 23;18(11):e0294565. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0294565

Mui W.L., Parekh F.K., Tseng A.S., Toro J., Craig T., Ndugga M., Schmidt A.C., Dagnew A.F., Penz C., Belai G. Data-driven epidemiologic approach to conducting site feasibility for a global phase III tuberculosis vaccine clinical trial. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2023 Nov 8; 3(11). doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002544

Ferris, J.S., Morgan, D.A., Tseng, A.S., Terry, M.B., Ottman, R., Hur, C., Wright, J.D., & Genkinger, J.M. Risk Factors for Developing Both Primary Breast and Primary Ovarian Cancer: A Systematic Review. (2023). Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology, 104081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.critrevonc.2023.104081

Yeh, K.B., Powers, M.D., Patel, A., Parekh, F., Tseng, A.S., Bradford, E., Parker, K., Soong, R., Olinger, G., & Mombo, I. (2023). Retrospective on molecular assay design for detecting pan-orthopox viruses and prospective on mpox laboratory preparedness and readiness. Frontiers in Tropical Diseases, 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fitd.2023.1221804

Otten, J.J., Spiker, M.L., Dai, J., Tseng, A.S., Buszkiewicz, J.H., Beese, S., Collier, S.M., Ismach, A. Washington State Food Security Surveys: Longitudinal findings across survey waves 1-4, 2020-2023 [Internet]. Seattle: University of Washington School of Public Health Center for Public Health Nutrition; 2023 June [cited 2023 Aug 4]. Available from: https://nutr.uw.edu/cphn/wafood/brief-15.

Otten, J.J., Spiker, M.L., Dai, J., Tseng, A.S., Buszkiewicz, J.H., Beese, S., Collier, S.M., Ismach, A. Washington State Food Security Surveys: Cross-sectional findings from survey waves 1-4, 2020-2023 [Internet]. Seattle: University of Washington School of Public Health Center for Public Health Nutrition; 2023 June [cited 2023 Aug 4]. Available from: https://nutr.uw.edu/cphn/wafood/brief-14.

Otten, J.J., Spiker, M.L., Dai, J., Tseng, A.S., Buszkiewicz, J.H., Beese, S., Collier, S.M., Ismach, A. Food Access and Economic Well-being: Additional findings from a 4th survey of Washington State households [Internet]. Seattle: University of Washington School of Public Health Center for Public Health Nutrition; 2023 June [cited 2023 Aug 4]. Available from: https://nutr.uw.edu/cphn/wafood/brief-13.

Anguzu, G., Gupta, A.J., Ochom, E., Tseng, A.S., Zhang, M., Barnabas, R.V., Flaxman, A.D., Katamba, A., Davis, J.L., Ross, J.M. Frequency of HIV serodifferent couples within TB-affected households in a setting with a high burden of HIV-associated TB. (2023). BMC Infectious Diseases, 23(1), 388. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-023-08365-y

Otten, J.J., Spiker, M.L., Dai, J., Tseng, A.S., Buszkiewicz, J.H., Beese, S., Collier, S.M., Ismach, A. Food Security and Food Assistance in the Wake of COVID-19: A 4th Survey of Washington State Households [Internet]. Seattle: University of Washington School of Public Health Center for Public Health Nutrition; 2023 Feb [cited 2023 Apr 28]. Available from: https://nutr.uw.edu/cphn/wafood/brief-12.

Doshi, S., Kingston, H., Tseng, A.S., Chohan, B.H., Sambai, B., Guthrie, B.L., Monroe-Wise, A., Mbogo, L.W., Masyuko, S., Tram, K.H., Sinkele, W., Macharia, P., Bukusi, D., Herbeck, J.T., Farquhar, C. (2023) SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence, correlates, and access to harm reduction services among people who inject drugs living with and without HIV and their partners in Kenya. Harm Reduction Journal, 20(1), 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-023-00754-5

Tseng, A.S., Sambai, B., Monroe-Wise, A., Mbogo, L.W., Ludwig-Barron, N.T., Masyuko, S.J., Chohan, B.H., Scott, J.D., Sinkele, W., Herbeck, J.T., Farquhar, C., & Guthrie, B.L. (2022). Assisted partner services for people who inject drugs: Index characteristics associated with untreated HIV in partners. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 91(3), 269–275. https://doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0000000000003062

Hill, C.M., Tseng, A.S., Holzhauer, K., Littman, A.J., & Jones-Smith, J.C. (2022). Association between health care access and food insecurity among lower-income older adults with multiple chronic conditions in Washington State, USA. Public Health Nutrition, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980022001240

Yeh, K.B., Tabynov, K., Parekh, F.K., Mombo, I., Parker, K., Tabynov, K., Bradrick, S.S., Tseng, A.S., Yang, J.-R., Gardiner, L., Olinger, G., & Setser, B. (2021). Significance of High-Containment Biological Laboratories Performing Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Biosafety Level-3 and -4 Labs. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2021.720315

Mbogo, L.W., Sambai, B., Monroe-Wise, A., Ludwig-Barron, N.T., Guthrie, B.L., Bukusi, D., Chohan, B., Macharia, P., Dunbar, M., Juma, E., Sinkele, W., Gitau, E., Tseng, A.S., Bosire, R., Masyuko, S., Musyoki, H., Temu, T.M., Herbeck, J., & Farquhar, C. (2021). Participation in methadone programs improves antiretroviral uptake and HIV viral suppression among people who inject drugs in Kenya. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 108587. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2021.108587

Tseng, A., Tolentino, L., Seiler, J., Issema, R., Fisher, M., Rowlinson, E., Slaughter, F., Fajans, M., Fuller, S., Green, D., Louden, D., Drake, A., Hahn, W., Ross, J.M., & Guthrie, B.L. Summary of Evidence Related to Travel, Hospitality and Service Industries, and COVID-19 Risk. Published April 6, 2021. https://depts.washington.edu/pandemicalliance/covid-19-literature-report/in-depth-reports/

Tseng, A., Tolentino, L., Seiler, J., Issema, R., Fisher, M., Fuller, S., Green, D., Louden, D., Drake, A. Hahn, W., Guthrie, B.L., & Ross, J.M. Summary of SARS-CoV-2 Novel Variants. Published February 5, 2021. https://depts.washington.edu/pandemicalliance/covid-19-literature-report/in-depth-reports/

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