Doctorally Trained Consultant

D&Y Consultation Inc. is led by Yash Patel, MPH, PhD, an epidemiologist with more than five years of experience across the CDC and state and local health departments, skilled in disease surveillance, outbreak investigation, epidemiologic data analysis, and translating complex data into actionable public health insights.

Skills

  • Epidemiologic surveillance & outbreak investigation

  • Statistical analysis & data interpretation

  • GIS mapping & spatial analysis

  • Program evaluation & needs assessment

  • Public health communication & stakeholder engagement

  • Communicable & chronic disease analysis

  • Qualitative & mixed-methods research (NVivo)

  • Public health data visualization & reporting- Dashboard

  • Research design, manuscript writing & peer review

  • Health equity & population health analysis

2026 Projects

County Public Health Department Dashboard Projects:

Purpose: Develop centralized dashboards that provide accessible, timely, and actionable data to support community assessment, strategic planning, performance monitoring, and emergency preparedness.

Primary Objectives

  • Provide demographic snapshots of county populations and geographic areas.

  • Monitor measurable community health indicators, trends, and disparities.

  • Present an easy-to-interpret impact scorecard to support data-driven decision-making.

  • Provide actionable insights on emergency preparedness, risks, capabilities, and response priorities.

  • Support leadership, program planning, resource allocation, and community partnerships.

Target Users
County public health leadership, program managers, epidemiologists, emergency preparedness staff, community partners, and stakeholders.

Core Dashboards

  • Community Demographic Dashboard: Population characteristics, socioeconomic factors, and geographic distributions.

  • Community Health Indicator Dashboard: Key health outcomes, risk factors, trends, and disparities.

  • Clear Impact Scorecard: Visual summary of priority measures, performance, and community impact.

  • Emergency Preparedness Dashboard: Preparedness indicators, risks, resources, capabilities, and response priorities.

Implementation
Requirements and design; data integration and dashboard development; pilot testing and validation; training and rollout; ongoing monitoring and enhancement.

Success Metrics
Dashboard utilization, data completeness and timeliness, stakeholder satisfaction, indicator tracking, and use of insights for planning and interventions.

Next Steps
Engage stakeholders, finalize indicators and data sources, and prioritize dashboard development.

Rural Health-Telehealth Medicine Survey Tool Development

Project Brief: Survey Tool — Access to Care for Rural Health Providers and Populations

Purpose: Design a survey tool to assess access to health care among rural populations and rural health care providers. The instrument will collect actionable data to inform planning, resource allocation, and interventions aligned with the public health essential service domain: Access to Care.

Primary Objectives

  • Measure current access to primary, preventive, specialty, mental health, and emergency services for rural residents.

  • Identify barriers and facilitators to accessing care (geographic, financial, transportation, workforce, cultural/linguistic, technology/digital access).

  • Assess capacity, workforce challenges, service gaps, referral and coordination practices among rural providers.

  • Capture community-level needs, utilization patterns, and local perceptions of care quality and acceptability.

  • Generate data disaggregated by age, gender, race/ethnicity, income, insurance status, disability, and geographic sub-region.

Target Respondents

  • Rural residents (adults 18+; with optional modules for caregivers of children and older adults)

  • Rural health care providers and administrators (primary care clinicians, nurses, community health workers

Public Health Department Infrastructure and QI

Purpose: Develop a centralized internal tool to document and visualize departmental mission, vision, services, goals, performance measures, and quality improvement (QI) activities. The platform will support outcome tracking, strategic alignment, audits, and continuous improvement.

Primary Objectives

  • Centralize strategic statements, services, goals, objectives, and KPIs.

  • Track program outcomes, targets, trends, and progress.

  • Standardize QI plans and departmental project charters.

  • Schedule audits, document findings, and track corrective actions.

  • Use audit and performance data to support PDSA cycles.

  • Provide dashboards and reports for leadership, grants, and compliance.

Target Users
Program managers, QI leads, departmental staff, leadership, IT/data staff, and audit committee members.

Core Modules
Strategic statements; service catalog; SMART goals/objectives; performance indicators; QI plans; audit schedules and checklists; charter enrollment; dashboards/reporting; role-based security and audit logs.

Implementation
Phase 1: Requirements/design (0–6 weeks). Phase 2: Build/configure (6–14 weeks). Phase 3: Pilot/test (14–20 weeks). Phase 4: Rollout/training (20–30 weeks). Phase 5: Sustain/improve (ongoing).

Success Metrics
Program documentation completeness, charter/QI plan completion, audit and corrective-action timeliness, outcome improvement, user adoption, and staff satisfaction.

Next Steps
Conduct a stakeholder workshop, finalize requirements, and identify the pilot department.