Ms. Colby Wilkason

Colby Wilkason is Associate Director of Sentinel at the Broad Institute, where she leads program implementation for a multi-country initiative to strengthen infectious disease surveillance and pandemic preparedness. She works across scientific teams and public health partners to translate advances in diagnostics, genomics, and data systems into sustainable, locally led surveillance systems.
Prior to joining the Broad, Colby worked in epidemic intelligence and emergency response at Resolve to Save Lives and the American Red Cross, including supporting responses to Ebola in West Africa and other international emergencies. She received her MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with a focus on infectious disease epidemiology, surveillance, GIS, and the spatial ecology of malaria transmission, and holds a BA from Harvard University.
Her interests include epidemic intelligence, infectious disease surveillance, geospatial approaches to public health, and strengthening locally led systems for outbreak preparedness and response.