Carole Baskin

Dr. Baskin was trained as a public health veterinarian with advanced training in comparative medicine and a senior fellowship in microbiology. Her focus was emerging pathogens, and she has performed research on the 1918 flu, highly pathogenic avian influenza, and helped develop ACAM 2000, a second-generation smallpox vaccine. She subsequently developed an interest in biosecurity and biosafety, which evolved into a passion for health security policy. She has served on panels at the NIH discussing issues such as dual use research of concern and has published a book on National Biosecurity.

She taught for over 12 years at the former Institute for Biosecurity at Saint Louis University, where she served as MPH programs director and Institute Director. She is now Director of Communicable Disease Prevention for the Department of Health of Saint Louis County, MO, a position she has held since 2019.

She was born in Paris, France and did her veterinary training in North Carolina, where she learned to love old school country music.