Formal Education

USC School of Cinematic Arts (2024-present), Part-time
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Expanded Animation (XA)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2015-2016), Full-time
- Master of Public Health (MPH)
- Degree concentration: Health in Crisis and Humanitarian Aid
- Capstone/Master’s Thesis: Ebola Crisis – A Retrospective on the Media Coverage
  - Video Essay
  - Master’s Thesis
University of California, Berkeley (2007-2011), Full-time
- Bachelor of Arts (BA), Public Health

Selected Fellowships & Awards

Visual Communications (Los Angeles, CA)
- 2020 Armed with a Camera Fellow: October 2019 – October 2020
Los Angeles Animation Festival 2019 (Los Angeles, CA)
- Silver Winner “Student Animated Documentary”: I Never Picked Cotton (2019)
Chicago Southland International Film Festival (Chicago, IL)
- Best College Film: I Never Picked Cotton (2019)
Elks National Foundation (Santa Ana, CA)
- MVS Scholarship Recipient (2007)

Selected Film Work

I Never Picked Cotton (2019)
Mất Nước • We Can’t Go Back (2019)
Personalities of Public Health (2015-2016)
Ebola: A Media Retrospective (2016)

Selected Essays

Emails with Ebert (2013)
Facepainting (2010)
The Essential Critic (and why we need them) (2010)
Falling In Love with an Idea (“Paprika” and “Inception”) (2011)

Selected Community Health & Research Projects

Hollywood, Health & Society (2020 – Present)
Project Vietnam Foundation (2020 – 2023)
Trial Promoter (2017 – 2020)
Digital Scholar Program (2017 – 2020)
Baltimore Bike Safety PSA: Video Pitch (Grant Successfully Accepted) (2016)
JHSPH Centennial Class Contribution Project (2016)
Interventional drug and device study for Hunter Syndrome (MPS II) (2014 - 2015)
Natural history study of Hunter Syndrome (MPS II) (2012 - 2015)
Interventional drug study for Morquio Syndrome Type A (MPS IVA) (2012 - 2014, study
completion)
Giao Diem Humanitarian Foundation: Pediatric Nutrition Project (2011-2012)

Selected Published Research & Academic Papers

Public Concern About Monitoring Twitter Users and Their Conversations to Recruit for Clinical Trials: Survey Study (2019)
A Software Tool Aimed at Automating the Generation, Distribution, and Assessment of Social Media Messages for Health Promotion and Education Research (2019)
Uncovering the patient experience on social media: A retrospective Twitter content analysis (American Academy of Dermatology Association, 2019)
Healthy disagreement as a driver for health promotion dialogue: Public response to an automated health communication intervention across multiple social media platforms (Health Communication, 2019)
Perspectives on increasing competency in using digital practices and approaches to enhance clinical translational research: A qualitative study (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Monitoring Twitter Conversations for Targeted Recruitment in Cancer Trials in Los Angeles County: Protocol for a Mixed-Methods Pilot Study (2018)
Ebola Crisis: A Retrospective on the Coverage (2016)
The Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH) (2010)

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Last updated 11 Feb 2025