Speaker: Cynthia
Yund, PhD
Presentation: Current Drinking Water Homeland Security
Research Section Activities
Dr.
Yund received her doctorate in Environmental Health
from the division of Epidemiology from the University of Cincinnati. Her areas of expertise include community
health, injury epidemiology, and bio-terror preparedness. She has served as an educator and consultant
for nurses, physicians, and other health care providers in the areas of staff
development, injury epidemiology, communicable disease investigation, syndromic
surveillance, vital statistics, and program development and evaluation.
Currently
Dr. Yund is an Environmental Health Scientist with
the National Homeland Security
Research Center
at the US EPA. Her projects involve integration of water quality data with
public health surveillance data as a component of contamination warning system
for the water sector.