The Vermont Tracking Team has been lending its expertise to help with the Health Department's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We thought we'd share what we've been working on.
Brennan Martin
, Birth Defects Registry analyst, is part of the M
ain Call Center and answers the COVID-19 related questions of callers and provides information and guidance to them.
Daniel Jarvis
, GIS manager,
is part of the Planning Team and assists in the management and dissemination of spatial data during the response.
David Grass
, principal investigator and program manager, is the deputy director of the Epidemiology Branch, which includes the Contact Tracing, Outbreak Response, Travel Monitoring, and Data Management teams. He also serves as a liaison to municipal governments.
Jan Leja
, systems developer, is part of the IT Support Team and primarily works on improving the
COVID-19 FAQs chat bot
.
Lauren Prinzing
, epidemiologist, is part of the Epidemiology Data Management and Analysis Team, which is responsible for ensuring the accuracy of Vermont’s case data, producing a
weekly data summary
, and responding to data requests from within state government, the media, and the public.
Wendy Blackman
, data analyst, is part of the team performing PCR testing at the Health Department Lab. (Previously she was a microbiologist for the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets.)