Craig Kiebler DVM MPH MS CVA

Craig Kiebler

¶ Craig Kiebler is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine graduate of Colorado State University. He previously completed a Master of Science in Biotechnology at The Johns Hopkins University, a Master of Public Health from The Colorado School of Public Health, and received a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Cornell University. He is certified in veterinary medical acupuncture and has additional training in veterinary rehabilitation. Prior to entering the veterinary program at CSU, he served in the military and as a civilian government employee during which time he lived and worked overseas – in Europe, the Balkans and the Middle East.

¶ Craig has also served as a senior technical consultant in the areas of technology application to global disease surveillance, detection and monitoring of socially disruptive events, and emergency/disaster preparedness and response.  He previously assisted with methodology development for Global Argus, a large-scale biosurveillance program at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington DC. Global Argus analyzes Internet media in dozens of languages to identify and track thousands of socially disruptive events.

¶ His interests include the role of agriculture in society and its effects upon public health, policy, economics, and the environment. In particular, he is fascinated by the influence of agriculture and associated systems on societal development, social strife, and response to catastrophe.

¶ Due to his experience overseas in locations with disrupted infrastructure, Craig directly observed the role basic resources play on the welfare of a society – in particular, its health infrastructure, economy, and influence of any existing societal tensions. Specifically, agricultural resources form the basis of many societies and are intimately tied into a region’s economy, land and water quality, and human public health. Craig has seen the effects of resource and infrastructure disruption on societies and in particular, how strong agricultural resources can, in many ways, help to determine the overall health and prosperity of a society.

¶ Craig is a co-author of the “Biosurveillance Tradecraft” chapter in The Wiley Handbook of Science and Technology for Homeland Security.  He has also contributed as a Global Health guest blogger on Change.org.  His posts can be found here.

Small Ruminants, Wyoming

Veterinary Public Health, Chile

Colorado State University

Foreign Animal Disease Training

Balkans

Balkans

Middle East