I have committed my career to this principle by creating resources and supporting workforce development initiatives in public health.
Working Groups and Subcommittees
Applied Genomic Epidemiology Community of Practice (AGE-COP)
for Development of the AMD Platform
Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) and
CDC Office of Advanced Molecular Detection (OAMD)
Training and Workforce Development Working Group, Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD) Subcommittee
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE)
Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Subcommittee
APHL
Working Groups and Subcommittees
Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Task Force (ARSTF) Training and Workforce Development Workgroup, 2023-2025
Workforce Development Events
Planning Committee and Faculty Member, AMD Academy, 2025
PATHOGEN PURSUIT: Central Region AMD Training Conference and Genomic Epidemiology Tabletop Exercise, 2025
Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD) Pre-Conference Workshop, 2024
Central Region AMD Training Conference, 2024
Guest Lectures
University of Pittsburgh – 2023, 2024, 2025
University of Michigan – 2024, 2025
North Dakota State University – 2023, 2024
Carnegie Mellon University – 2022
Below are slide decks for some of my presentations at conferences, guest lectures, and training events focused on pathogen genomics and infectious disease epidemiology.
And here's a video of a TED Talk-style presentation I gave in April 2024,
in which I describe the role that the Department of Defense plays in public health.