School of Biology Hosts Career Seminar

Please join us on Thursday, April 14th at ~ 11 AM in the room 322 CE for an exciting seminar about the careers in Government institutions. Please share this information with your friends and colleagues who might be also interested to come.

Below is a brief information about our guest Ms. Cory Moore, and this event:

-- Cory Moore is a Lieutenant and Environmental Health Officer with the United States Public Health Service. Cory has an MPH from the Environmental and Occupational Health department at Emory University. Cory also received her undergraduate degree from Emory University in 1998 from the BioPsychology Department. She works at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (CDC NCEH/ATSDR), and has just recently returned from a detail to EPA region 4’s Emergency Response and Removal Branch where she worked as an On-Scene Coordinator. While on her 4-month detail, Cory assisted with the emergency response or removal of 8 hazardous waste sites. Cory “normally” works in program development as an environmental health specialist III. Cory has worked on many projects and initiatives at CDC including the National Environmental Public Health Conference where she was part of the planning committee and chaired the green team, she was the epi/surveillance team desk lead for the first 4 weeks of novel H1N1, she was deployed to work the IOWA floods in 2008, she created and runs multiple summer internship programs, she participates in various panels determining federal funding for grants and programs, she trains on green meetings, and she assists the Science Ambassadors program by helping teachers make public health lesson plans. Currently, Cory is working back at the Emergency Operations Center for the Japanese Earthquake and Response as the Scientific Response Section Executive Assistant and Task Tracker working 6-7 days a week in this role. Cory currently serves on the built environment workgroup, the climate change workgroup, the global environmental health workgroup, is an executive member of the career paths to public health workgroup, and chairs the Go Green, Get Healthy meetings workgroup. Before coming to CDC, Cory worked at Yerkes Primate Center, Zoo Atlanta and Nashville Zoo as a primatologist, trainer, and big cat keeper. Cory also did a service year in Americorps, performs around Atlanta as a professional soprano, just ran the Georgia Half-Marathon, and did a pesticide and health project in Yunnan, China.