Education - Wiley Jenkins earned a B.A degree in both chemistry and biology from Blackburn College in 1991. In 1999 he was the recipient of a CDC Graduate Certificate Program grant and was enrolled at Tulane University. Over the course of the next three years, he completed coursework in the epidemiology track in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, graduating with a Masters of Public Health in 2002. He was then admitted to the doctoral program . He earned his Ph.D. in August 2007 in the division of Health Policy and Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health.

Experience - Wiley entered the analytical workforce through performing molecular biological research at Jewish Hospital/Washington University in St. Louis. He joined the Illinois Department of Public Health in 1994 as a laboratory environmental chemist and has since held a number of positions (sometimes concurrently). He was the Environmental Chemistry supervisor from 1999 through June 2003, as well as Biomonitoring Planning manager. In July of 2003, Wiley assumed duties as the Laboratory Bioterrorism Coordinator for the Division of Laboratories where he was responsible for coordinating terrorism response activities for all three labs (Chicago, Springfield, and Carbondale). He joined the faculty at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in the department of Family and Community Medicine in 2007 as Director of Research and Program Developement.

• Sexually transmitted disease intervention policies
• Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in policy and intervention development
• Workforce development, particularly laboratory skills
• Program planning and evaluation

Education - David Carpenter received his BS in Mycology/Microbiology from the University of Vermont, and his PhD in Microbiology from the University of New Hampshire. Following receipt of his PhD, he tenured a National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associateship in the US Army Natick R&D laboratories. In 1986, he received an MBA in Marketing from Lake Forest College Graduate School of Management in Lake Forest, Illinois.

Experience - Prior to joining the SIU School of Medicine, Dr. Carpenter was Director of Laboratories for the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), a position he held from 1986 to January, 2000. In this position, he had responsibility for directing all operations of the IDPH clinical and environmental Division of Laboratories.

From 1977 to 1986, he was employed by BAXTER International Healthcare of Deerfield, IL. He held positions in the BAXTER Dialysis Therapies division, conducting marketing research in support of new product development, and in the BAXTER R&D Division, managing laboratory units responsible for developing and implementing processes for assuring and maintaining sterility of manufactured health care products.

Prior to his tenure at BAXTER, he held the position of Research Microbiologist at the United States Army R&D Laboratories in Natick, Massachusetts, where he conducted research on processes to mitigate the microbial spoilage of food rations used during military maneuvers.

Current academic interests - Laboratory surveillance and epidemiology of diseases of public health significance.