Blackwelder is an architect, international design consultant, and airborne infection control trainer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Tuberculosis Elimination. He is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and performed his graduate work at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. Among many accomplishments, he was instrumental in the design and construction of two smallpox laboratories/repositories throughout the world. Blackwelder will present on “Airborne Infection Control Strategies — Protecting the World from the Greatest Disease Related Threats.”