Kelly graduated from the University of California Berkeley with a Master of Public Health in Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology in May 2014. She aims to build upon her experience in academic and state infectious disease research laboratories to become a contributing member of the public health community.Kelly is most interested in using her well-rounded knowledge of epidemiology, infectious disease prevention, and the biology of pathogen-host interactions to work as a public health professional. She finds emerging and zoonotic infectious diseases to be among the most interesting and challenging public health problems of today, and hopes to use a One Health-centric approach to public health. Her graduate thesis entitled "Emerging Viral Zoonoses of Bats: Transmission Dynamics and an Ecological Approach to Future Research" addresses these issues in detail.