MISSION

healthy people, healthy planet

BIOTHREAT DETECTION

GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH AND BIOSECURITY

Medicine focuses on the health of individuals. Public health is population health. My work over the years has been focused at the intersection of biomedical technologies and public health interventions to benefit people individually and at the community health level.

Currently working to advance chembio threat detection technologies for public health and environmental biosecurity
Developed pioneering gene-edited environmental clean-up systems for emerging contaminants of concern (COCs) [e.g., 1,4-dioxane] (Intrexon)
Advanced genetically engineered mosquitoes for use in mosquito-borne infectious disease vector control (Intrexon, Oxitec)
Performed technology analysis on gene editing, genetic engineering, and cloning technologies used in our food systems (Intrexon)
Piloted pioneering HIV CD4 mobile testing interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa to ensure efficacy of HIV anti-retroviral therapies (ART) in rural low resource settings (St. Gabriel's Hospital Malawi)
Advanced medical countermeasures for biosecurity: sensors, diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines (Gen-Probe, Nanogen-Vectrant, Intrexon)

MISSION: HEALTHY PEOPLE, HEALTHY PLANET INVESTING IN HEALTH AND THE PUBLIC GOOD
The public good can be measured by the impact of our investments in making people healthier, protecting our environment, and ensuring the safety and security of our communities. I believe that the biosecurity, health, and well-being of humans, animals and ecosystems is interconnected, and we can realize healthier, more secure lives now and for generations to come with technology applications designed to address the public health.

I am focused on making biotechnology work for the public good. To achieve this I founded businesses to advise biotechnology startups and establish new ventures that contribute to healthier people and a healthier planet. Learn more below about my current activities and the experiences that catalyzed a personal mission to use my decades of experience in the biotechnology industry to promote global public health, environmental health, and biosecurity in our natural and built environments.

I am currently honing my skills performing epidemiological and risk analyses to better understand targets for intervention, resource requirements, and methods for analyzing data to inform next steps developing and deploying technologies in the advancement of environmental and public health interventions.

FOCUS AREAS:
MAKING BIOTECHNOLOGY WORK
GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH AND BIOSECURITY
ACADEMIC RESEARCH
ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP