Material development for teaching and training scientists and laboratorians
Topics include: Global bio-risk management curriculum, laboratory quality management systems, biosafety and biosecurity, infectious disease, public health, and diagnostic training. Lab training will be designed specifically to their infrastructure as labs will have limited capacity, personal barriers and proper lab techniques to protect themselves and others is the main focus.
Yellow Fever in Brazil
The deadly vector borne disease has affected three states on the Atlantic coast of Brazil adjacent to major cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The current cases are tied to a jungle mosquito that may jump to the urban dwelling Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. The combination of newly infected persons in densely populated cities with non-vaccinated persons is a perfect scenario for the virus to thrive. This project will use parameters unique to mosquitos, temperature, virus infectivity rate and human travel to forecast the epidemic growth.
Mobile Diagnostic Lab in Sierra Leone
In June 2015 and August 2016, I deployed for eight weeks to perform diagnostic testing on Malaria and Ebola in the Bio-Safety Level 3 mobile diagnostic lab in coordination with the Central Public Health Reference Laboratory in the capital city of Freetown.
