Dianne Maglaque is a senior research analyst in the early childhood program area. She is interested in programs and policies that address social determinants of health and access to social resources among marginalized populations. She has over five years of experience in public health research and community health programming. Prior to graduate school, Dianne served as an AmeriCorps member supporting various population health initiatives such as a county-wide needs assessment and a clinic-based resource navigator program. Furthermore, she collaborated with healthcare staff on a pilot program to screen primary care patients for social needs within the electronic health record system.

In graduate school, she worked on various projects on topics ranging from infectious diseases to maternal and child health with a diverse range of partners including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Georgia (HMHBGA), and the Georgia Department of Public Health (GDPH). She led a data visualization effort within CDC’s Tuberculosis (TB) Elimination Division assessing the state cost of TB hospitalizations across the U.S. Her work with HMHBGA and GDPH revolved around using mixed methods research to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on perinatal women and on home visiting programs, respectively. She supported both projects’ survey and interview guide development, data collection, analysis, and reporting.

Most recently, she led a development team in building data pipelines and dynamic data management dashboards using Palantir software to support CDC’s infectious disease outbreak responses and routine surveillance activities. She conducted data validation and data quality checks while collaborating with CDC epidemiologists to design workflows within the platform to transform, analyze, and develop reports on their data.

Dianne earned her undergraduate degree in neurobiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Masters of Public Health from Emory University.