Public Health Analytics and Modeling Fellow
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Rany Octaria, PhD, MPH earned her PhD in Epidemiology and MPH in Public Health from Vanderbilt University. Before her career in public health, she practiced as a family physician in Indonesia. Dr. Octaria worked as an Epidemiologist at the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH), where she managed surveillance data under the healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance (HAI-AR) program and led the COVID-19 data stewards team. Dr. Octaria incorporated stochastic and network models to characterize the epidemiology of these organisms and optimized their surveillance system data extraction and containment strategy using multi-database linkage and analysis of statewide electronic data. Dr. Octaria is assigned to the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, where she is developing an interactive website to visualize patient transfer networks among healthcare facilities in the US and model the regional transmissions of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs), among other MDRO modeling projects.