New Face at the National Office

Hi, my name is Carolyn Blushke.

I am the Junior Program Coordinator at the National Office.  I am responsible for coordinating the management, completion and reporting of several different research projects including AIV and in particular a new Canadian Safety and Security Program project involving numerous national collaborators conducting surveillance  and analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in Canadian wildlife.  I had worked for the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre, as it was known at the time in a term position processing samples for Chronic Wasting Disease surveillance.

I have worked at the University of Saskatchewan in both the undergraduate medical education and MBA programs. Prior to that, I worked at Saskatchewan Environment in the parks branch. I completed several different projects including conducting a forest health study, researching, and writing forest management strategies and developing material related to forest health and forest renewal.

I am happy to be back at the CWHC and look forward to working on various wildlife health issues.