Jacob D. Lorber

Master of Public Health Candidate,

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 2023

Nashville, Tennessee

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science

Kenyon College, 2013

Gambier, Ohio

Graduate Practicum - Refugee Health Screening and Promotion

May 2022 - September 2022

Nashville, TN

Assisted State Refugee Health Coordinator on health programs for refugees settled across the state of Tennessee

• Organize health data gathered through refugee medical screenings
  
• Redraft the state clinical partner screening manual
  
• Assist with on-site clinical partner monitoring visits
  
• Perform qualitative interviews with health promotion staff at partner agencies to create a standard set of best practices for the Refugee Health Promotion Program
  

Client Advocate/Volunteer Coordinator, Tennessee Justice Center

August 2016 - August 2018

Nashville, TN

Act as a caseworker and representative on individual health care-related legal issues for residents of Tennessee, and responsible for coordinating all volunteer and intern activity for the organization.

• Responsible for working 30-50 individual cases at a time, under the supervision of TJC’s staff attorneys. This involves connecting clients to a variety of community health resources, filing appeals with Tennessee’s State Medicaid Agency (TennCare) and acting as an authorized representative for clients during appeal procedures and administrative hearings
  
• Assisted with the management of TJC’s client intake process
  
• Acted as the point of contact for two medical-legal partnerships with East Tennessee State University, in Johnson City, TN, and Neighborhood Health Clinics, in Nashville, TN
  
• Recruited all volunteers, including for two annual fundraising events
  
• Recruited, interviewed, and hired interns and volunteers, both legal and otherwise
  

Legal Assistant, Bill Gordon & Associates

June 2014 – July 2016

Washington D.C.

Provide administrative and client-related services support to Washington, D.C. office

• Handled incoming calls from clients regarding case status, attorney contact and correspondence
  
• Managed electronic case files in client database
  
• Responsible for following up with medical providers and other records holders concerning retrieval of clients' records
  
• Updated attorneys on the status of requests in a timely fashion and carrying out additional tasks requested by attorneys and records supervisor
  
• Prioritized mailed correspondence from clients and State and Federal Social Security offices
  

MPH Capstone Courses

• HOD 6200: Program Evaluation
  
• IEPM 6110: International Organizations and Economic Development
• MHS 5420: Economic Demography and Global Health
• PUBH 5541: Essential Skills in Global Health
• PUBH 5540: Leadership and Management in Global Health

Other Selected Public Health Courses

• PUBH 5575: Health Equity for Public Health
  
• PUBH 5525: Health Economics
• PUBH 5538: Quantitative Methods for Program and Policy Evaluation
• PUBH 5550: Global Health Policy and Politics
• PUBH 5502: Biostatistics I
• PUBH 5509: Biostatistics II
• PUBH 5516: Public Health Practice

• Worked with the Tennessee Office for Refugees to establish evaluation methods for Refugee Health Promotion program in Tennessee
• As part of a Program Evaluation course, currently working with Siloam Health to build program evaluation tool for the Refugee Medical Screening Program
• Participated as a grant review committee member for the Vanderbilt University Office of Health Equity Community Mini-Grant award process
• Worked alongside members of the public health and healthcare community and the Metro Nashville Public Health Department to write the Community Health Improvement Plan
• Currently working with the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health Bridge-U Liberia program, assessing outcomes of the Residents As Teachers and Leaders (RATL) Program
  

Research Projects

• Effect of Paid Parental Leave Policies on Infant Mortality Rates

• The Legacy of the Affordable Care Act: Examining the Change in African American Medicaid Enrollment Before and After Medicaid Expansion
  

Infographic and Visualization Examples

• Refugee Resettlement Process Reimagined
  

• Languages Spoken by Traditional Healers
  

Tools

• Interview Survey Tool for Collecting Data from Refugee Resettlement Partner Agencies
  

• Siloam Health Refugee Medical Screening Process Program Process Evaluation Tool
  

• Tennessee Justice Center Children's Health Insurance Program Outreach Evaluation Tool