Erin Stearns
Founder, Geospatial Epidemiologist & Public Health Technical Advisor
Portland, Maine, United States
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Top SchoolErin Stearns is a founder and geospatial epidemiologist with nine years of experience designing surveillance systems, spatial analyses, and data-driven public health strategies for global infectious disease programs. She blends hands-on field experience in Sub-Saharan Africa with technical roles at IHME, CDC, and consultancy work translating complex geostatistical models into actionable policy and program recommendations. At EpiMap she advises clients on program expansion, grant development, and visual analytics, and she has a track record of building efficient mobile data collection workflows from her Rollins mHealth work. Currently completing a PhD in Statistics and Epidemiology, Erin pairs rigorous quantitative skill with pragmatic implementation know-how—often surfacing local operational insights others miss. Based in Portland, Maine, she is especially focused on geospatial visualization and modeling to reveal hidden drivers of health disparities and to inform targeted interventions.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Global Epidemiology, Master’s Degree, Global Epidemiology at Emory UniversityBachelor's Degree, Kinesiology, Bachelor's Degree, Kinesiology at Miami UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics and Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics and Epidemiology at Lancaster University
English, French, Portuguese, Italian
Github Skills (60)
proj10
r-package10
mapping-tools10
mappings10
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gdal9
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hugo-theme8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
erstearns/mod-geodisparities
Jan 2019 - Mar 2020
March of Dimes Geo Disparities Project
Contributions:14 PRs, 104 pushes, 30 branches in 1 year 2 months
marchdisparitiesgisgeo
erstearns/geocompr
Apr 2018 - Nov 2022
Forthcoming book on geographic data with R
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 12 branches in 4 years 8 months
r-packagerstatsgeographic-dataspatial-data-analysisgeotools
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