Tommy Schafer
Manager of Data & Evaluation at Howard Brown Health
Topics: LGBTQ+ topics in public health, HIV/AIDS/STIs data, epidemiology and reporting careers
Pronouns: they/them
About
Tommy Schafer (pronouns they/them), MPH is a Manager of Data and Evaluation at the Midwest’s largest LGBTQ+-focused Federally qualified health center (FQHC). They earned their BA in Biology from Case Western Reserve University in 2014 and their Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology from The University of Illinois at Chicago in 2016.
Beginning as an intern for their UIC-SPH Practicum, Tommy developed a Patient Satisfaction Survey for the HIV/STI Walk-in Clinic at Howard Brown Health. Tommy worked in the HIV/STI walk-in clinic as a Disease intervention specialist for HIV and Syphilis, interviewing and creating case reports for city, state, and federal surveillance systems. They were hired in 2017 to Coordinate the FOCUS Project, a Gilead Pharmaceuticals Public Health arm-funded program implementing opt-out HIV Screening across the nation. Tommy presented the implementation and evaluation of this program at over a dozen conferences between 2017 and 2019.
Since 2020 Tommy has managed the data and evaluation team at Howard Brown Health and been involved in numerous internal and grant-funded evaluation projects. They now focus on constructing the yearly Unified Data System (UDS) Report, Surveillance of HBH’s Hepatitis Cases, Internal Evaluation Projects and is currently working on three research articles regarding Transgender Men and Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for HIV, Equity of Primary Care Receipt among Transgender patients of HBH, and spatial analysis of the availability of LGBTQ+ affirming mental and psychiatric health services in Chicago. In their non-work life Tommy is an experienced fiber artist, cook, and quilter.
Tommy is interested in speaking on LGBTQ+ Topics in Public Health, HIV/AIDS/STIs Data, and Epidemiology and Reporting Careers.