Allison Seidel, DrPH, MPH, MPH

Instructor

Contact Info

• Academic Email: aseidel@usf.edu
• Academic Phone: (813) 396-0703
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Education

Discipline

Epidemiology

Specialization

• Disease Surveillance
• Informatics
• Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Biography

Dr. Seidel has been an epidemiologist for more than 10 years, working in federal, state, and local public health agencies. After graduating with her MPH, she was an epidemiologist with the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, working with the DoD, Global Laboratory-based, Influenza Surveillance Program where she monitored influenza worldwide and participated in outbreak response for other infectious diseases. While getting her DrPH at the Colorado School of Public Health, she worked with the Colorado Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence. During her time at the Colorado Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence, Dr. Seidel assisted in food safety epidemiology research and taught health departments across the Rocky Mountain Region how to conduct foodborne illness outbreak investigations. In 2019, Dr. Seidel became an epidemiologist with the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment, focusing on the improvement of adverse health event surveillance associated with cannabis use and ensuring the safe sale and use of cannabis among Denver residents. At this time, she also led the epidemiologic response to a large hepatitis A outbreak among people experiencing homlessness and people who use injection drugs. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Seidel was in charge of case investigations and contact tracing for the city and county of Denver. After working during the pandemic, Dr. Seidel started working with CSTE and CDC to improve electronic case reporting through the Reportable Conditions Knowledge Management System (RCKMS), assisting jurisdictions with their use of RCKMS. Dr. Seidel is passionate about improving disease surveillance systems to use new and non-traditional data sources to ensure equitable data collection across all communities to reduce health disparities from infectious diseases.