Education in Zoonotic Diseases Makes America More Secure

Through graduate education, internships and career development, the FAZD Center is creating the next generation of highly trained professionals for FAZD defense.

Amy Delgado studied as a doctoral candidate, conducting research on the social implications of a Foot-and-Mouth Disease outbreak in the United States.

Today, she works in Costa Rica to improve disease surveillance and emergency response in agriculture.

She also deals with emergency preparedness and response, and risk communication.

Noried DeJesus-Velazquez took part in the 2007 DHS Minority Serving Institutions Summer Research at a FAZD Center laboratory.

She is pursuing a master's degree in epidemiology at the University of Puerto Rico. She plans to earn a Ph.D. before entering government service.

Katherine Taylor received the

Fogarty International Clinical

Research Training Award through NIH

and the American Association of

Schools of Public Health.

She is a winner in the DHS poster

competition for 2010, and is in her

second year as a Career

Development Graduate at the

University of Texas Medical Branch.

Her research aids in developing

vaccines against zoonotic diseases.

Amy Hagerman is a research associate in agricultural economics at Texas A&M who performed her thesis work at the FAZD Center.

She is part of a research team led by Nobel Prize-winner Bruce McCarl.

Her research focuses on strategies for responding to outbreaks of highly contagious Foot-and-Mouth Disease in the United States.

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