She is the former Director of Community Epidemiology and Evaluation at the Oklahoma State Department of Health where she led a team of analysts who focused on community-based public health initiatives and worked with county health departments across the state on staffing, patient flow and project planning. Dr. McGaugh's research interests include health care analytics, public health marketing, and social network analysis. Her current courses emphasize descriptive and predictive analytics and several programming languages including SAS, R, and Python and visualization and geographic software including Tableau and ESRI ArcGIS.