I'm a public health informatics fellow, which means my job is to try to be that bridge between IT, or technology, and the actual public health that's being implemented. The CDC needs people to have the skills to say 'We understand this need of sharing data across populations, being able to test states, process data instantly that can get transmitted to the CDC, who can then analyze all of this information and make conclusions and make recommendations.' The goal is to be able to fix problems quickly and implement them on the fly... without using any paper. It's all just done through technology. Other public health programs and informatics, you may do a lot of reading about things and... and... and discussing it; but, here, you get to do it. So that's really nice. You get to actually be involved with a real life problem with a real life solution.

Of all of the things you're proud of in life, one of the proudest things I have right now is I feel like, whenever I look down at my ID badge, I feel very proud that I've... I'm in this organization to try to make a difference.