Natalie Vestin
Ms. Vestin is a grant program associate at CIDRAP, working on the Options and Innovations Project for Strengthening State and Local Public Health Preparedness while completing an MPH degree in the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health. Ms. Vestin has most recently served as a research associate in a medical consulting company, where she developed educational handbooks and presentations for domestic and international use. She has presented her grant-funded research on tuberculosis prevention among African refugees at national conferences. She earned a history and international human rights degree and worked in nuclear nonproliferation and local disaster response from 2001-2003.