As a veterinarian and epidemiologist, Carrie supports Ending Pandemics’ deploying a One Health approach for ensuring timely, community-level outbreak detection. From her early career work in ecosystem health through her recent global One Health readiness projects, Carrie has employed a community-based approach to understanding challenges and finding effective solutions to improve health and wellbeing of animals, people and the environment.
While at Sandia National Laboratories, Carrie developed a unique web-based platform for participant-led tabletop exercises, Portal for Readiness Exercises and Planning (https://endingpandemics.org/startx-exercises) which EP has utilized in multi-country exercises to inform development of the South Asia One Health Network and as part of COVID-19 During Action Reviews. She designed and implemented multiyear efforts to strengthen biorisk management and One Health while Sandia’s country lead for Somalia and Vietnam. She recently led a multidisciplinary team in a participant-led assessment of U.S. food, agriculture and veterinary readiness.
Prior to Sandia, she served as a New Mexico based Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for the U.S. CDC where she coordinated infectious disease outbreak investigations, conducted a community-based rabies study and death reviews related to domestic violence and opiate overdose, and contributed to efforts addressing food insecurity and environmental health. Prior to EIS, she worked as an emergency response planner with the CDC and completed her MPH with honors in Global Environmental Health at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University in 2012 with a thesis evaluating community health needs in a diverse, impoverished county in rural. As a committee consultant with the California State Legislature and director of a water-quality nonprofit, she worked to ensure science was incorporated in developing natural resources and environmental health policies. After completing her DVM at University of California Davis in 2004 and internship in 2006, Carrie practiced in small animal emergency medicine and served as a Veterinary Medical Officer with the National Veterinary Response Team. She maintains active veterinary licenses in California and New Mexico.
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