Ms. Maldin is Associate at the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC. A public health professional by training, Ms. Maldin’s research focuses on issues related to public health and hospital preparedness, health information technology, as well as building public-private partnerships to strengthen local capabilities to respond to large infectious disease outbreaks—this includes pandemic preparedness and business contingency planning.

Ms. Maldin is an Associate Editor of the Clinicians’ Biosecurity Network, a secure website run by the Center for Biosecurity to provide authoritative and timely information to clinicians who are interested in biodefense preparedness and response. She is also Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science. She has authored a number of publications pertaining to hospital preparedness and response and public health service delivery. Additionally, Ms. Maldin was instrumental in the widely recognized Atlantic Storm exercise of 2005.

Prior to joining the Center, Ms. Maldin served as Director of the Emergency Information Technology Unit (EITU) at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The EITU had ultimate responsibility for all of the department’s bioterrorism and homeland security technology initiatives. As director, Ms. Maldin oversaw the creation and management of the EITU, and she directly managed the agency’s highest priority technology projects.

Ms. Maldin has direct operational experience in bioterrorism preparedness and emergency response. She was integral in the New York City Health Department’s responses to the 1999 West Nile virus outbreak, the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, and the anthrax letter attacks in autumn 2001. Immediately following the World Trade Center attack, Ms. Maldin was the first of several key players in the New York City emergency command center who coordinated the Health Department’s response to the tragedy. In the wake of the World Trade Center attack, Ms. Maldin helped implement the bioterrorism surveillance system within NYC hospitals. Ms. Maldin was also responsible for the implementation of an electronic bioterrorism specimen tracking system at the New York City Public Health Laboratories in the aftermath of the anthrax attacks. Ms. Maldin also helped orchestrate the New York City Health Department’s response during the 2003 blackout.

Ms. Maldin received a BS in Anthropology and Human Biology from Emory University in 1998 and an MPH in Policy and Management from the Columbia University School of Public Health in 2000.  Ms. Maldin is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).