Ms. Clouse received her Master’s in Public Health from the University of Kentucky in May of 2009. From 2010 to 2019, she worked as an epidemiologist in Kentucky’s Department for Public Health (KDPH), within the Division of Maternal and Child Health (MCH). In October 2019, Ms. Clouse joined the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) serving as a Local Field Placement in Kentucky. In this role, she worked to enhance the KDPH’s capacity to develop and implement goals in critical areas for Kentucky’s Opioid Use Disorder, Maternal Outcome, and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Initiative (OMNI) and assisted Kentucky in establishing the Kentucky Perinatal Quality Collaborative (KyPQC). Ms. Clouse is now employed with the University of Kentucky and serves as the Research Project Manager under the Overdose Data to Action grant. Ms. Clouse received her Certification in Public Health (CPH) in 2021 and is currently enrolled in the Health Services Research PhD program at the University of Kentucky.