Public Health resume examples — bullets that earn the 7 seconds.

Keyerrá Buckley · CPhT · CLSSGB · B.S. HCA

Each sample uses the CAR + Callout method: outcome up front, then Challenge → Action → Result. The structure that makes recruiters slow down — and converts directly into STAR interview answers.

MPH grad — first role transition

Concentration-aware (Epi, Health Policy, Community Health, Global Health, Biostat). Practicum, capstone, and TA work positioned as professional experience, not coursework.

CAR + Callout sample bullet

Reduced HPV-vaccine series-completion drop-off from 38% to 19% across a 4-clinic FQHC during MPH practicum — built a text-reminder workflow with 7-, 14-, and 28-day touches; clinic adopted post-practicum.

Epidemiologist (state, federal, or private)

Outbreak investigation, surveillance, IRB-cleared research, REDCap/SAS/STATA/R fluency, peer-reviewed contribution.

CAR + Callout sample bullet

Led contact-tracing for a 240-case norovirus outbreak across 14 long-term-care facilities in 5 weeks — co-authored the state epi report, contributed to a peer-reviewed publication in JID, informed updated state PHEP guidance.

Community Health Worker / CHW supervisor

Front-line patient navigation, SDOH screening (PRAPARE), enrollment assistance, language-concordant care, supervisory + training pathways.

CAR + Callout sample bullet

Connected 412 unhoused-or-housing-insecure patients to permanent supportive housing within an FQHC SDOH program over 18 months — built a CHW-to-housing-navigator referral protocol that cut time-to-housing by 47%.

Population Health Manager

Risk-stratified panel management, value-based-contract performance, ACO MSSP attribution, REACH model, total-cost-of-care impact.

CAR + Callout sample bullet

Improved MSSP shared-savings rate from 14% to 31% in a 28K-attributed-life ACO over 24 months — re-stratified panel using risk-adjusted utilization, deployed 3 high-risk-cohort interventions, drove $8.7M in shared savings in PY3.

Program Coordinator / Grant-Funded

Grant-cycle work (RFP through close-out reporting), multi-funder portfolios, IRB submissions, partner-coalition management.

CAR + Callout sample bullet

Coordinated a $1.4M RWJF-funded equity-in-care initiative across 5 community partners over 30 months — submitted 3 IRBs without a single deferral, closed out the grant on-budget with 87% of milestones met or exceeded.

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