Jacobs Information Session | Spring 2022

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Jacobs will be joining us to share a company overview, discuss relevant projects within the company, and provide details on internships and full-time positions. For more information about Jacobs, please visit their website here (new window).

Date: Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM, EST
Location: In-Person, Pre-Clinical Science LA2
RSVP Here by Monday, February 21st.

Presenting will be:

Jane Blake, MS, PMP is Jacob’s Global Health Security Director and has decades of experience in biosurveillance, biosafety and biosecurity research and operations, Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) implementation, metrics and evaluation measurement, and training implementation. Most recently, as deputy program manager for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP), Jane co-led an 80+ contractor team providing technical, logistical, and acquisition support and was a primary architect of BTRP’s sustainment strategy and metrics framework. Ms. Blake is a Georgetown alumni, with a BS in Foreign Service and a MS from the Biohazardous Threat Agents and Emerging Infectious disease program.

Nino Kharaishvili, MD, MBA, PMP is Jacob’s Global Director for Health System Governance and specializes in global health security, biological threat reduction, health system resilience and preparedness, disease/bio surveillance, health system strengthening, and program metrics and evaluation. She has conducted health system assessments in 25+ countries to assess, design, and implement various health system strengthening projects. In addition, Dr. Kharaishvili has extensive experience in setting up metrics and evaluation programs and tracking progress towards achieving target indicators.”