Monica White and Colorado Tick-Borne Disease Awareness Association

Cameras on as we welcome Monica White co-founder and President of Colorado Tick-Borne Disease Awareness Association. Born on the East coast, Monica spent her childhood and early adulthood active in the outdoors of New England, graduating with a BS in Wildlife Management from the University of New Hampshire in 1992. She moved west to
Colorado where she worked as a wildlife biologist and wildland firefighter throughout most of her career with the United States Forest Service, until becoming ill with Lyme disease and multiple co-infections. Monica is a mom of two children infected with Lyme disease and multiple co-infections, her husband was infected as well. She also serves on the Public Tick Integrated Pest Management working group, served as a subcommittee member on the Federal Health & Human Services Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG) Disease Vectors, Surveillance and Prevention Subcommittee in 2018 and
Babesia & other Tick-Borne Pathogens Subcommittee in 2020. She is currently a programmatic panel member of the DoD’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP),Tick-Borne Disease Research Program (TBDRP). She annually partners with Center for Lyme Action to advocate for increased Federal funding of Lyme and other TBD disease research with the hope to contribute to the change needed to combat Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, especially in children.
Co-Authored: H Joel Hutcheson, James W Mertins, Boris C Kondratieff, Monica M White, Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases of Colorado, Including New State Records for Argas radiatus (Ixodida: Argasidae) and Ixodes brunneus (Ixodida: Ixodidae), Journal of Medical Entomology, 2020;,
tjaa232, https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaa232