Washington State Department of Health
1610 NE 150th Street
Shoreline,
WA
USA
98155
Biographical Sketch:
Chas DeBolt RN, MPH is employed as a Senior Epidemiologist by the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) after 13 years of experience in communicable disease epidemiology in the local public health setting (Seattle/King County). She moved to DOH in 2005 to oversee Vaccine Preventable Disease (VPD) surveillance activities for the Department. A VPD-specific epidemiology position had not previously existed at DOH, and the duties position include activities related to both the state immunization program and the communicable disease surveillience section. She is also the designated Vaccine Safety Coordinator for pandemic influenza for the state of Washington. She is a graduate of Bryan Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. Her professional experience includes 9 years of Cardiac and Medical-Surgical Intensive Care nursing. She completed a BA in socio-cultural anthropology at the University of Nebraska, and later received her MPH in Epidemiology at the University of Washington.