Quote
"The health of soil, plant, animal, and man is one and indivisible." -- Sir Albert Howard
Institution
USDA-APHIS-VS/ORISE
Based in
United States , Lakewood, Colorado
Languages
English
Spanish
Short Bio
Dr. Heather Martinez is a veterinary epidemiologist and is currently completing an ORISE fellowship in Veterinary Services within the United States Department of Agriculture, specifically on the Bovine Tuberculosis Initiative. She is working on an international bovine tuberculosis vaccination project collaborating with Mexico, helping with U.S. animals disease investigations, and forging transdisciplinary partnerships to combat this disease.
She graduated from Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2013, where she fell in love with the idea of using animal health as a tool for human health, mixed animal practice, and learned about how the One Health approach can bring multiple disciplines together to help solve complex, global health issues. After being in small animal clinical practice at a nonprofit animal hospital in Denver, CO for several years, Heather earned her Master in Public Health at the Colorado School of Public Health in 2020. She competed the CDC/Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Applied Epidemiology Fellowship working with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, in 2022.
She became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine (ACVPM) in 2021 and a Diplomate of the Epidemiology Specialty within ACVPM in 2024.
She graduated from Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2013, where she fell in love with the idea of using animal health as a tool for human health, mixed animal practice, and learned about how the One Health approach can bring multiple disciplines together to help solve complex, global health issues. After being in small animal clinical practice at a nonprofit animal hospital in Denver, CO for several years, Heather earned her Master in Public Health at the Colorado School of Public Health in 2020. She competed the CDC/Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Applied Epidemiology Fellowship working with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, in 2022.
She became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine (ACVPM) in 2021 and a Diplomate of the Epidemiology Specialty within ACVPM in 2024.
Other Expertise
Leadership
One Health
Epidemiology
Veterinary Public Health
Veterinary Medicine