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395 E Street, Nw, Washington Dc, 20024

Leading inspection teams to evaluate conditions of detention in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) migrant detention facilities on the Southwest border.

Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Provided consulting on health security and public health emergency preparedness planning. Supported Maryland’s Emergency Management Agency mobile vaccination planning, consulted on COVID vaccination policies and other COVID planning. Consulted on a project for Washington, DC Department of Health developing, conducting, and evaluating an Ebola virus full-scale exercise with multiple stakeholders and drafted an After-action Report and Improvement Plan.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Served as the Director of a division responsible for developing national policies, plans, and strategies related to health and security, and public health and healthcare emergency preparedness and response.HIGHLIGHTSLed large stakeholder engagement efforts to -develop the first National Health Security Strategy (NHSS) for submission to Congress;-update the HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan;-develop an ASPR Strategic Plan; and-develop a Situational Awareness and Biosurveillance Plan for submission to Congress.Served on a project team that developed a hospital and healthcare sector exercise that we conducted in Los Angeles, New York City, Northern Virginia, and PhiladelphiaMANAGEMENTOversaw a staff of thirteen government and contract employees with an annual budget of $3.2 million Made decisions about hiring government and contract staff, established performance expectations, managed day-to-day work of staff and allocated resources based on shifting priorities, conducted staff performance reviewsOversaw the Division’s $1 million support contract with Obsidian, Inc. and grants to key public health stakeholder organizations totaling an additional $1 millionLEADERSHIPLed efforts for Congressional reauthorization of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act which is the legislation that established the officeDeveloped the Congressional Budget Justification for the Office of Policy and PlanningServed as the HHS departmental representative to the White House National Security Council (NSC) for several policy committeesServed on the Secretary’s planning task force and met daily with the Secretary’s Chief of Staff to organize the Secretary’s Flu Summit held in July 2009 during the H1N1 influenza crisis and was commended by the Secretary

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Served as a Policy Analyst on a range of public health and healthcare emergency preparedness and response issues.

Washington, Dc

Served three years in legislative branch at GAO conducting Congressionally requested performance reviews of U.S. Government programs. Drafted reports and submitted findings and recommendations to relevant U.S. Congressional committees, briefed Congressional staff on findings and recommendations, and prepared Congressional testimony. Examples include-Influenza Pandemic: HHS Needs to Continue Its Actions and Finalize Guidance for Pharmaceutical Interventions (2008) -Hurricane Katrina: Status of Hospital Inpatient and Emergency Departments in the Greater New Orleans Area (2006)Participated in GAO’s two-year Professional Development Program and did rotations in three divisions: 1) International Affairs and Trade;2) Healthcare; and 3) Natural Resources and Environment. Served as the Staffing Coordinator for the 225 person Healthcare Division and tracked the staffing requirements for projects, staff availability and skills, advised senior management on staff assignments, and coordinated all staffing decisions for the Healthcare Division

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Managed CBACI’s program focus on Health as a Global Security Challenge Wrote grant proposals for the program that were funded including a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grantDeveloped and raised funds for a public-private partnership project on the role of vaccines and medical countermeasures in public health preparedness resulting in the project report Meeting the Biodefense Challenge: A Roadmap for a National Vaccine Strategy (2005)Designed and organized two international conferences on Health as a Global Security Challenge held in Geneva in June 2001 and 2002Spent two weeks embedded in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Communicable Diseases Cluster working on health security issues with WHO leadership (David Heymann, Guenael Rodier) and WHO staffServed as editor of CBACI’s Health and Security publication series which published several monographs including-Russia’s Health and Demographics Crises: Policy Implications and Consequences (2003), Murray Feshbach-Mortal Peril: Public Health in China and Its Security Implications (2003), Yangzhong Huang-Pretoria’s Shadow: The HIV/AIDS Pandemic and National Security in South Africa (2002), Andrew Price-Smith Served as a project team member for a 1999-2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) project grant to define the public health and medical requirements for addressing bioterrorism which informed the establishment of a new CDC office to address these issues

Master’S Degree, Government And Politics

Bachelor’S Degree, Political Science