Jennifer Olsen Email & Phone Number

Americus, Ga, Us

• Initially served as Executive Director of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving• Transitioned organization from part of Georgia Southwestern State University to become an independent entity in January 2021, serving as inaugural CEO• Responsible for the overall administration and management of the Institute, including personnel and fiscal management, fund-raising, and business operations• Oversees organizational strategy, planning and evaluation, policy development, and public relations• Assesses trends and research in the caregiving, aging, and mental health fields to develop and adapt quality programs and services • Builds relationships with individual, corporate, and foundation funders to encourage giving• Maintained liaison with former First Lady Rosalynn Carter to ensure the Institute advanced her vision

Washington, Dc, Us

Served on the U.S. House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis

San Francisco, Us

• Managed multi-million dollar annual budget to fully operationalize 5-year “Ending Pandemics in Our Lifetime” initiative• Launched BBC-featured cross-sector program in Northern Thailand where thousands of volunteers use a smartphone app to report health threats faster, leading to policy change and saving the government millions of dollars• Developed partnerships with Ministries of Health, Ministries of Agriculture, and multinational organizations to prevent, detect, and respond to outbreaks• Created Epihack™ process, convening 12 hackathon-style events in which technologists and public health experts from 70+ countries participated and that produced tools utilized by national governments• Directed donor collective with 14 foundations and private sector organizations to jointly fund projects• Led staff, managed grantee relationships, and supported launch of start-up companies

• Launched Fusion Cell to increase awareness and information sharing during emergencies, overseeing development from concept to fully operational division and managing a multi-million dollar budget • Reduced time to collect information on deployed resources during public health emergencies by developing a real-time dashboard of decision support data for operations center• Led decision support analysis to determine surge capacity for natural disasters, including Superstorm Sandy, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and Deepwater Horizon oil spill• Directed syndromic surveillance for large scale special events, including the G-8 and G-20 summits, State of the Union Addresses, the 2009 Presidential Inauguration, and Democratic and Republican National Conventions• Created a geospatial platform to facilitate information sharing between responders across agencies• Advised decision-makers across 25 agencies on development of a Federal Interagency Information Collection Plan for the 2009 H1N1 Influenza outbreak• Ran the America Competes Act “Now Trending” challenge in effort to highlight trending health threats on social media

Falls Church, Va, Us

• Directed Reachback (technical support) team supporting the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services as a contractor for Northrop Grumman• Acted as only health expert to advise on health implications across weapon categories• Led development and implementation of the first operational epidemiological models for real-time support of U.S. Northern Command during homeland security readiness and response exercise• Managed Innovation Division’s Infection Disease Assessment Capability program• Increased diversity of influenza prediction impact groups by collaborating with the CDC

Rockville, Md, Us

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Drph, Public Health Leadership

Mph, Epidemiology

Ba, Biomathematics