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Tracy Sides, PhD, MPH

Dr. Sides is the epidemiology outreach coordinator for the BioWatch program at CIDRAP. She has a broad background working as an epidemiologist in both the public and private sectors. She conducted research and provided analytical support in the Division of Epidemiology at the University of Minnesota. She has worked as a consultant to the law firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller and Ciresi on its landmark tobacco litigation case, as well as at the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Sides has training and experience in microbiology and molecular epidemiology, particularly in relation to public health applications. In 2005 she was selected to evaluate the World Health Organization's role and activities in relation to global monitoring and surveillance of HIV drug resistance.

Prior to joining CIDRAP, Dr. Sides was a senior infectious disease epidemiologist at the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), where she coordinated Minnesota's HIV Disease Surveillance System and initiated HIV subtype and drug resistance surveillance. She collaborated widely both within and outside of MDH in such areas as disease surveillance methods, prevention and care services planning, data security, refugee and immigrant health, molecular epidemiology, and emergency preparedness.