Tiffany L Bogich

National Science Foundation funded COVID-19 modeling network for outbreak decision support.

Wrote and awarded NSF rapid grant to develop a framework for designing outbreak surveillance strategies that will feed into active policy development for current US COVID-19 test allocation and outbreak response. Challenged to coordinate multiple research groups to model COVID-19 testing scenarios in coordination with county- and state-level health officials to determine testing strategies required to inform re-opening (and closing) decisions.

Impact: Wrote the NSF grant to fund the design of an objective-driven outbreak surveillance strategy for COVID-19 testing and outbreak response.

• Short term grant; work has just started. We expect to deliver the first set of results to the CDC and other relevant health policy stakeholders within the month.

Technology consultancy providing project management, business and advisory services to startup companies.

Started consultancy firm, primarily equipping three tech companies with business, marketing and research resources to complete unfinished projects. Drove all project/product management aspects, while supporting fundraising, brand building and first customer acquisition efforts. Charged with capturing new engagement opportunities, developing scope of work, drafting contracts, developing project budgets and hiring contractors if needed.

Roster of clients include:

• The Center for Open Science (12/2019 – 1/2020): Provided project management and technical team of contractors to help create a new journal transparency rating app for grant-funded, nonprofit organization.

  Impact: Built capacity to transform proof-of-concept into a finished production-ready, scalable application within tight one-month timeframe, which prevented loss of current and future grant funding.

• Stenci.la (10/2019 – 2/2020): Provided technical founding team of small NZ-based startup with marketing and business development support to build an open source platform for reproducible research documents.

  Impact: Crafted strategic marketing plan (vision, mission, value proposition and top-line messaging), customizable master pitch deck, CRM and processes/systems for customer acquisition and outreach.

• Nomena (3/2020 – Present): Helped early-stage startup build a more efficient, data-driven organization and develop operating system for data access and privacy control, targeted at GDPR and CCPA compliance.

  Impact: Conducted market research to help drive website redesign and deck development for series A funding. Currently writing in-depth research piece for future customer outreach.

Venture-backed startup building sci.pe, a publishing platform for open access scholarly journals.

Led organization’s strategy planning and business development upon co-founding the first company to help scientific journals transition to web-first publishing. Directed all operational aspects, such as strategic planning, finances, fundraising and HR, including talent acquisition. Held direct accountability for all public-facing assets, including website development and documentation. Served as company’s spokesperson, handling all communication and outreach.

Impact: Co-led the company that aimed to reinvent the scholarly publishing platform and helped the industry embrace open web standards and transition to web-first publishing.

• Successfully led efforts to raise $2.5M from angel, nonprofit, and strategic investors, which led to the building of an ambitious end-to-end publishing platform.
• Selected for two startup accelerator programs, including a Mozilla Foundation program and prestigious TechStars NYC with a <1% acceptance rate. Touted by VentureBeat as one of the 6 most impressive startups from TechStars NYC 2014 demo day.
• Closed multi-year contract (pre-product) with one of the top 5 industry publishers, which secured $250K in revenue annually and an additional $250K in investment.
• Guided first customer (one of top 5 academic journal publishers) to migrate their scientific content to new data model based on open web standards, resulting in lower production costs and more accessible content.
• Drove down production costs by developing new universal style guide for scholarly submissions that enabled the capture of structured data needed to automatically convert documents to accessible, semantic, production-ready HTML.
• Built brand awareness amongst journal publishers for new unknown entity on a shoestring budget by writing research articles on a broad range of industry topics.

Member of world-leading scientist’s, Bryan Grenfell’s, lab in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology as part of Fogarty International Center/NIH RAPIDD network of faculty and fellows.

Selected for the NIH funded postdoc, which included invitation to work on HFMD Hand Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) research project, caused by two Enteroviruses. Challenged to initially understand the disease dynamics in order to provide effective management and monitoring strategies for implementation by local health authorities.

Impact: Delivered collaborative publications in high-impact journals on some of the biggest topics in modeling infectious disease dynamics.

• Developed models to inform future vaccination and control strategies for emerging childhood infection (HFMD) by teaming with Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Vietnam. Published joint review article on HFMD as a result of work with collaborators.
• Communicated research findings to U.S. annually at the White House Conference Center as well as the scientific community via 6 invited research talks, including at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
• Authored 3 collaborative consensus papers (research articles covering broad topic areas and written with teams of 20+ co-writers).
• Co-developed open source library to describe and simulate infectious disease dynamics, which reduced technical friction and made it easier for modelers to share research, quickly iterate in crisis situations, and improve decision-making.
• Organized and led workshops to bridge gaps in infectious disease modeling knowledge. Improved data collection for disease detection and control by identifying need to connect disease sampling design to population models used to inform disease treatment

Global environmental health nonprofit working at the interface of animal conservation and public health.

Helped to build and supervise a team of veterinarians and scientists to develop a research program aimed at predicting the next pandemic as part of the 10-year, $200M USAID funded Emerging Pandemic Threats Program. Wrote grants and research publications, while engaging in research.

Impact: Played a key role in heightening EcoHealth’s position as a leading disease modeling group, as well as in obtaining renewed funding.

• Built data-driven models accounting for global-scale complexities of disease transmission, including multiple interacting hosts, pathogens and their environment.
• Established surveillance programs to provide data for statistical modeling and validation in conjunction with in-country research scientists, veterinarians and laboratories.
• Developed mammal-virus association database by designing data collection strategy and bringing in team of interns and research scientists to review literature and historical lab data to populate database.
• Recognized as productive contributor with publications in high-impact journals, including two highly cited Nature papers (in 2017 and 2010), a first-author PLOS Medicine article policy forum (2012), and two PNAS articles (2014 and 2013).