Provincial epidemiologist for Zoonotic and Vectorborne diseases.

Serves as the infectious disease epidemiologist for the county.

Assisting with "Building Resilience in Disaster Response" Project

•Lead on drafting new outcome measures and payment plan proposal for Legislature, and managing workgroup meetings.•Drafted best practices document for Public Health Dentistry to disseminate to UMN School of Dentistry students•Assisted in creating two Letters of Intent for potential grant proposals.•Reviewed literature on outcome based payment models and organized into an Access database for LOIs and grant proposals, and collaborated with stakeholders on outcomes criteria. •Collected data and input into Access database on six states to assist in creating LOIs and grant proposals.•Tracked and created spreadsheets for UMN Dentistry Alumni for report dissemination and research projects.

•Piloted and streamlined a survey to track responses for HAN Alerts (quality improvement project).•Streamlined and redeveloped a training module for health professionals to assist in outbreaks.•Created facts sheets on common infectious diseases that occur within the county.•Implemented a quality improvement project to track health alert network advisory responses from all county partners.•Developed a series of training modules to assist other counties in implementing their HAN quality improvement project.•Assisted the Minnesota Department of Health in contact tracing for a foodborne outbreak investigation by cold calling and conducting five successful interviews.

Acting Logistics Manager for 2014 Floods.•Lead on delivering resources to victims of Manitoba of 2014 Floods.•Simultaneously executed tasks for Disaster Management, Restoring Family Links, and Red Cross Operations involving risk assessments, rapid needs assessments and community profiles.•Assisted in approval of funding for recovery grant proposals•Developed a protocol for logistical procedures during emergencies.