Public health leadership | Epidemiology | Academic quality

Rauf Shah, MS, PhD, MPH-Epidemiology (Expected Fall 2026)

Lead Health Data Coordinator Level II, University of Nebraska Medical Center | Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology

I help clinical, academic, research, and public health teams turn complex evidence into clear decisions, reliable systems, and practical improvement. My profile bridges health data quality, epidemiology, infectious disease and chronic disease surveillance, teaching, and program quality.

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Public health Epidemiology, surveillance quality, equity-aware reporting, and translation to practice.
Clinical data Health data coordination, quality review, reporting workflows, and evidence-ready summaries.
Academic work Teaching, curriculum service, rubrics, standards, and program improvement systems.

Public Health Mission

My future professional and academic mission is to strengthen public health practice by connecting epidemiology, surveillance, data quality, teaching, and practical leadership. I want my work to help programs make clearer decisions, prepare stronger public health workforces, and translate evidence into action that improves population health.

Surveillance & Data Quality

Improving the reliability, interpretation, and public health use of health data across chronic disease, cancer, infectious disease, and program settings.

Epidemiology & Population Health

Using population thinking, surveillance evidence, and equity-aware interpretation to support better public health decisions.

Infectious Disease & Preparedness

Supporting timely communication, situational awareness, and practical response planning for infectious disease and emerging public health threats.

Teaching & Workforce Development

Building applied learning experiences that prepare students, professionals, and teams to use evidence clearly and responsibly.

Evidence Translation & Leadership

Turning complex information into practical briefs, standards, workflows, and decisions that teams can sustain.

Public Health Focus Areas

  • Surveillance and health data quality: making health data more consistent, useful, and decision-ready.
  • Infectious disease and preparedness: supporting timely evidence, clear communication, and practical response planning.
  • Chronic disease and cancer burden: improving interpretation of trends, outcomes, access, prevention, and follow-through.
  • Epidemiology-informed public health practice: connecting data quality, population patterns, equity, and timely communication.
  • Teaching and workforce development: building public health training materials that are clear, applied, and assessable.
  • Project and grant development: shaping public health ideas into scoped projects, proposals, briefs, and partner-ready plans.
  • Leadership through systems: improving standards, workflows, evidence collection, and feedback loops without unnecessary burden.

Selected Evidence

Experience

Current role, health data and research experience, academic preparation, applied skills, leadership, and selected evidence.

Publications & Presentations

Peer-reviewed publications and scholarly presentations showing research depth, data interpretation, and collaborative scientific work.

Teaching Philosophy

Evidence-based teaching approach for public health, data-intensive learning, applied assessment, and inclusive classroom design.

Public Health Leadership & Practice

Practice and research interests connecting epidemiology, surveillance, infectious disease, chronic disease, data quality, and community impact.

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A founding initiative for public health projects, grant development, training, surveillance quality, evidence translation, and partnerships that improve population health.

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Applied Surveillance Teaching Artifact

A public health teaching artifact showing how complex surveillance content can become practical learning materials.

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How I Work

Plain-language standards Evidence-ready data Equity-aware reporting Reproducible analytics Learner-centered design Responsible innovation

I am most interested in roles and collaborations where strong evidence, public health judgment, teaching, and practical leadership need to work together.

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