CSTE Applied Epidemiology Fellow
Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, Atlanta, GA, USA
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
William Koehne, MPH is a CSTE Applied Epidemiology Fellow at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health working with the Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance team. He received a bachelors degree from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in environmental health and worked in in health communications at the Emergency Operations Center of the CDC for two years during the Zika Response. After that, he completed his MPH in epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University while working with various epidemiology projects such as Vibrio surveillance at CDC and a large cluster-randomized trial examining strategies for improving latrine use in rural Odisha, India. In his current position at PDPH, he has helped analyze and create useful reports using data from PDPH’s newly established carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) surveillance system as well as Philadelphia National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) data. He has also been involved in the Philadelphia COVID response, working primarily with long-term care facilities outbreaks. Much of his time early on was spent cleaning and managing information shared by these facilities, but now his work on the COVID response revolves around designing and analyzing surveys of facilities as well as other data sources such as NHSN to better understand facility needs.
