Charley Naney is the former Public Health Epidemiologist for the Guilford County Department of Public Health and is currently a PhD student in the Applied Science and Technology Bioscience program at North Carolina A&T State University. Mr. Naney started his professional career as a counselor for vulnerable youth in a group home and then affluent young men with addiction issues in a wilderness-based treatment center. He then moved abroad to volunteer with Partners in Health (PIH) Co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer as an accompagnateur caring for people living with HIV in Central Haiti and then traveled to Kenya to teach the PIH Model to the Community Health program at Tenwick Mission Hospital. He then returned to the States on a CDC-funded Rural Appalachian Cancer Demonstration Program Fellowship where he earned an MPH with a concentration in epidemiology. He then started his public health career as an epidemiology consultant at MDC, Inc. in Chapel Hill, NC and a non-profit hospital conversion foundation in Danville, VA. Mr. Naney then accepted a position with the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine Epidemiology Consult Service (USAFSAM-ECS) where he played a critical role in the investigation of the first epidemiologically linked cluster of confirmed Novel H1N1 Influenza cases in the United States. He was then hired as an Epidemiologist II by the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC).