Cartter, Matthew

Matthew Cartter is the State Epidemiologist for the State of Connecticut Department of Public Health. He is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Community Medicine and Health Care at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and an associate clinical professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale University School of Medicine.

He teaches a course for Masters in Public Health students on acute disease outbreak investigations at both UConn and Yale. Dr. Cartter is a past president of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. His research interests include the history of epidemics.

Cartter is also the Director of the Connecticut Emerging Infections Program (EIP), a joint effort between the State of Connecticut Department of Public Health, the Yale Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA.

Matthew Cartter

PREVENTION OF LYME DISEASE IN CONNECTICUT

Hey Matt!

What did you do with the tax-payer funded grant money?

It was suppose to be for

Lyme disease prevention in Connecticut.

MILLIONS and MILLIONS and MILLIONS of DOLLARS!!

And FIFTEEN YEARS Later NOTHING!

Connecticut STILL has one of the highest incidence of

Lyme Disease in the USA!

Connecticut Department of Public Health

410 Capitol Ave., MS# 11EPI

P.O. Box 340308

Hartford, CT 06134-0308

• Contact Info
• Office
• (860) 509-7995
• Fax
• (860) 509-7910

Honors & Recognition

• Pump Handle Award
• Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) (2010)

http://publichealth.yale.edu/people/MLC3-2.profile

Education & Training

M.D.

University of Rochester(1980)

M.P.H.

University of Connecticut(1996)

Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer

United States Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1983 - 1985)