AMAlec McCarthy

Portfolio

Projects

Work across field operations, surveillance systems, data automation, and public health analytics.

Guinea Worm Program: ODK → QA → reporting pipeline

Built and maintained a production data workflow for Guinea Worm eradication operations, connecting field data collection to standardized outputs.

  • Improved consistency across multi-country forms and naming conventions
  • Implemented validation logic and QA checks (GPS outliers, duplicates, date logic)
  • Streamlined monthly reporting-ready datasets for dashboards and leadership updates
ODK CentralRtidyversesf (geospatial)Excel templatesPower BI

508 PDF automation & multilingual reporting (Cloudburst Group)

Automated PDF accessibility remediations and translation workflows to streamline compliance and reporting across international development projects.

  • Automated 508 compliance remediations using Python, Tesseract, PyTorch, and Deepdoctection
  • Integrated OpenAI Whisper for PowerPoint translation, reducing manual turnaround time
  • Designed 100+ graphics and interactive maps supporting program reporting and geospatial analysis
PythonTesseractPyTorchOpenAI APIArcGISR

MEWS Evaluation (MPH capstone): climate-informed outbreak risk

Evaluated and improved an early warning approach for meningitis outbreaks using climate data and operational constraints.

  • Compiled and cleaned data from WHO, ACMAD, and CDC across 39 countries
  • Created 12 district-level choropleth maps comparing risk prediction to retrospective outbreak data
  • Improved the early warning system by incorporating population density into risk assessment
RStatistical modelingClimate dataArcGISPublic health evaluation

Data quality audits at village scale

Performed deep-dive audits on national datasets to identify structural issues that can silently corrupt analysis.

  • Detected misaligned columns impacting hundreds of villages
  • Developed hierarchical fuzzy matching to standardize administrative unit names across multi-country datasets
  • Improved confidence in downstream monitoring and reporting
RData auditingFuzzy matchingGeospatial validation