Carl Kinkade 
Carl is the Enterprise GIS Coordinator for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Division of Epidemiology and Analytic Methods in the Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services. His undergraduate degree is in Architecture, master’s degree is in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Nebraska, and is working toward his doctorate in Public Health.
Carl coordinates GIS activities across CDC, provides GIS training across the globe for CDC and partners, and represents Health and Human Services on the Federal Geographic Data Committee and other federal workgroups. He has been deployed to support humanitarian and public health events around the world including Katrina, Myanmar, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, and Haiti.
In addition to his response activities, he has traveled throughout Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America to assist public health partners in building surveillance, data collection, and analysis capacity. Currently he is working on the national disease surveillance system for Iraq and assisting Brazil to prepare for the Olympics and World Cup.
He is a Certified GIS Professional (GISP) from the GIS Certification Institute and sits on the national review committee to review applications. Prior to coming to CDC, he worked as the Team Lead for the GIS Practice at BearingPoint, as a Health Industry Manager for ESRI, owned a consulting firm that specialized in GIS and Public Health working mainly with Nebraska Health and Human Services, and worked as the GIS Coordinator for the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department. In addition, he spent two years in the US Peace Corps in the Philippines as a local community development volunteer and twelve years in the US Army Reserves.
Keynote Address
Tuesday, April 17, Afternoon Session
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