Dr. Jennifer McQuiston, a specialist in outbreak investigations who spent time in West Africa during the 2014-15 Ebola epidemic, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 19, in Cole Hall at Bridgewater College.
McQuiston, deputy director of the Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, will discuss her work with Ebola in West Africa and the Zika virus.
She earned the doctor of veterinary medicine from the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. As a veterinarian, McQuiston has worked on diseases such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Q fever and rabies. She is also a captain in the U.S. Public Health Service.
McQuiston has participated in numerous emergency responses, including deploying twice during the 2014-15 Ebola epidemic in West Africa. She served on a CDC advance team that flew into New York City on 9/11 to help watch for possible bioterrorism events.
She led a team that helped trace imported wildlife that caused the first U.S. outbreak of monkeypox in 2003. She also has participated in CDC responses to influenza and in the global polio eradication program.
McQuiston has received numerous national awards, including the Daniel E. Salmon award from the National Association of Federal Veterinarians and CDC’s James H. Steele Award for outstanding work on veterinary public health issues.
The program is free and open to the public.
Bridgewater College is a private, four-year liberal arts college located in the Central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Founded in 1880, it was the state’s first private, coeducational college. Today, Bridgewater College is home to more than 1,800 undergraduate students.
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