Sami Newlan

Background

About Sami Newlan

Supervising Epidemiologist contractor at Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Outbreak Management Branch, Data Science Team. Currently supervising and programming on a high priority post-pandemic data science project at LA County DPH, and worked on the data science side of COVID outbreak investigations for the prior three years. I have 15 years of continuous experience in research science and epidemiology since my first research apprenticeship in 2008, including observational and experimental study design, data management and advanced statistical analysis, programming (SAS Certified, Stata, SPSS), outbreak investigation, causal inference, program evaluation, survey development, data collection and participant recruitment, study coordination, protocol writing, and training research staff. I recently earned my second Master of Science in Epidemiology degree from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for work I completed during my Doctor of Science degree program, which I decided to end as my career interests shifted toward more applied data science roles.