Dr. Patrick Tschida, DrPH, MPH, RPCV, QIDP, BA

Senior Applied Epidemiologist, Civil Servant, Educator, Evaluator, Climate Change & Public Health in Global South Contexts Leader

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

About

Engaging stakeholders to improve health outcomes for mothers, infants, children and elders around the globe. Contact me at: 1-612-232-6654 or via email at: [email protected], so we can collaborate! SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL SKILLS & EXPERTISE: - COVID-19 Pandemic response testing and vaccination site management; planning and evaluation of CARES Act programs for improvement of social determinants of public health, utilizing social vulnerability indices (SVI), large data, and geo-mapping - Qualitative & quantitative research methodologies - HIV/AIDS & infectious disease medicine research - Maternal and child health issues, randomized controlled trials, community-based participatory action research (CBPR), disease prevention, nutrition improvement program implementation - Health promotion/disease prevention education, social marketing campaigns, research, program evaluation - Knowledge of NUD*IST, Atlas, SAS/SPSS, EPI Info, STATA, dBase, Word Perfect, Tableau, Qualtrics, SurveyMonkey, Otter.ai, ConstantContact, and the Microsoft Suite for Windows software programs - Public health research, administration, strategic planning, conflict management, community development, capacity-building

Experience

  • Evaluator/Senior Epidemiologist at Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Epidemiology Center (GLITEC)
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    www.glitc.org

  • Senior Epidemiologist at Great-Lakes Inter-Tribal Epidemiology Center, Epidemiology and Community Health, University of MN
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    • Responding to Tribal public health requests and needs around the 3-state region. • Coordinating public health infrastructure re-build for 34 federally recognized Tribes. • Co-leading Tribal Epidemiology Center Public Health Infrastructure (TECPHI), Tribal Overdose prevention, and Tribal Maternal Mortality reduction grants (CDC).

  • Hennepin County Department of Public Health (10 yrs 10 mos)
    • Policy Specialist/Health Professionals for a Health Climate HPHC Board Member
      Sep 2015 - Present · 10 yrs 10 mos

      · Staffed, led, and provided support for six committees, including the Council for HIV/AIDS care & chronic disease prevention, Ryan White grant programming, and MN Department of Preventive Services; priority focus on those with disabilities.

    • Policy Specialist
      Sep 2015 - Present · 10 yrs 10 mos

      · Staffed, led, and provided support for six committees, including the Council for HIV/AIDS care & chronic disease prevention, Ryan White grant programming, and MN Department of Preventive Services; priority focus on those with disabilities.

  • Contributing Faculty Member | Student Advisor, Research Reviewer | Social Change Research Fellow at Walden University
    Jan 2011 - Present · 15 yrs 6 mos

    Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the course redesign of PUBH 8050 "Global Health: Issues in Disease Prevention" Teach and mentor public health Master's and Doctoral level courses in an online, graduate university. Also, I serve as a Residency Faculty Member, and committee chair and member for doctoral student dissertation committees, specializing in students from the 'Global South', particularly those from sub-Saharan African counties. Successfully mentored more than 100 post-graduate public health students in accredited MPH, PhD, DrPH, and DHA degree programs. Also participate in the alignment process of courses, ensuring that the course objectives align with the core competencies for accreditation with the Council of Education for Public Health (CEPH) for Walden University, and the University of Saint Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota.

  • Faculty at Walden University School of Public Health and Public Policy
    Jan 2011 - Present · 15 yrs 6 mos

    I have enjoyed serving on Faculty for WU Master's students, and then as a University Research Reviewer (URR), Member of the Institutional Review Board (IRB), Co-Principal Investigator (CO-PI), Committee Member (CM), and/or Mentor/Advisor/Committee Chair to WU doctoral students (PhD, DrPH, DPA, DBA) doctoral thesis projects from formulation of the research Q(s) and hypothesis through co-authorization publication(s) for top-tier journals (NEJM, AJPH, Lancet, SSM-Population, etc) of findings of their original research.