Madison Merzke is a data scientist with a background in public health and healthcare systems data as well as general data analytics. Her skills include R, applied statistics, data visualization, and process optimization. In addition to her A-G contract and grant work translating data into insights, she serves as Tableau expert.

Previously, Madison was employed at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health, where she coordinated complex and competing deliverables within overlapping CDC awards including the collection, abstraction, reporting, and quality control of data for multiple statewide injury data sources and surveillance systems. During her time there, she slashed CDC-reported errors for one surveillance system by 75% through original error-detection R codes via REDCap API. Madison also used R to automate several processes: the output of tailored data request letters and case request lists for every county in Kentucky; weekly emails reporting on data quality, completeness, progress towards deadlines, and potential areas for improvement; and entry of toxicology reports, reducing abstraction time by 95%. She debugged SAS and R codes for quarterly reporting of statewide hospital discharge overdose data, prompting revision of a nationally deployed CDC analysis and reporting code and eliminating 100% of detectable errors in Kentucky’s submissions.

Madison received her Bachelor of Public Health and Master of Applied Statistics degrees from the University of Kentucky in May 2019 and May 2023 (expected), respectively. Outside of work, she loves reading and hiking with her spouse and dog.