About Speaker

Dr. Alvarado has a PhD from Oregon State University in Health Policy; she dedicated her dissertation to health disparities research. She has experience in a variety of public health areas, and most relevant to the COVID-19 Game Jam: Jamming the Curve, is her work in public health emergency preparedness and risk communication. As the public health preparedness community liaison in a local Texas health department, she was activated during the 2009 H1N1 response. There she led the crisis and emergency risk communication team and had an active role in mass vaccination planning and implementation efforts.