Nicholas Kelley
Mr. Kelley, a research assistant with the CIDRAP Business Source and Weekly Briefing, is a first-year graduate student at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health, seeking a MS degree in environmental health with an emphasis in infectious disease. He graduated with BA in biology from Luther College, Decorah, Iowa. While at Luther, he spent 3 years doing research on Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a novel foodborne pathogen. He also became fascinated by the influenza pandemic of 1918-19, and his synopsis of the disease was published in the Decorah Newspaper. Upon graduating from Luther, he was hired to help research and write Luther's pandemic influenza preparedness plan.