Hannah Whiteford began working with the county in January 2023 on the Schools COVID Response Team. She graduated with her Master of Public Health from Columbia University in 2022. While attending Columbia University she was a research assistant for the COVID-19 and Family Life Study, collecting data on the impacts of COVID-19 on families of pediatric oncology patients. Hannah received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Point Loma Nazarene University in 2018. She worked as a registered nurse at Nationwide Children’s Hospital from 2018 to 2021.