My name is Jennifer Freed and I work at the Division of Community Health investigations at ATSDR. I've worked at CDC a little over 16 years. I'm an environmental health scientist and I'm currently working on developing a new software application for a scientist. It will help them determine if the levels of chemicals in air soil and water can be harmful to the people that live in communities near hazardous waste sited. During my last year of that degree I took a class called ecology of infectious diseases. I learned that the environment can affect the way diseases are developed and transmitted. But I also started thinking more about the environment and other ways it affects public health. I learned about ATSDR during my master’s degree and I realized, that is the agency that I wanted to work for. They take public health and environmental health and chemical contamination and things in our environment and they figure out the ways that it affects people and what we can do about it. I've been on several interesting deployments to CDC and the commission corps. After the events of 9/11 I deployed to the World Trade Center site to sample indoor air particulates and people homes to make sure they were safe to reoccupy. I also deployed to a mail facility in Washington DC with the team of scientist from NIOSH to the sample for anthrax spores and determine if the mail facility was ready for the workers to go back in. I'm Jennifer Freed, I work for ATSDR and I am CDC.
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