This month we say goodbye to our longtime General Manager Craig Downs who retired after 36 years and say hello to our new General Manager Paula Macedo, DVM, Ph.D.
Macedo comes to the District with impressive credentials.
She hails from the Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito & Vector Control District where she served as that District's laboratory director for 11 years. Her surveillance program is internationally recognized and considered the most comprehensive program of its kind in the United States.
Prior to SYMVCD, she served as a research scientist at Montana State University where she worked on human health risk assessments
connected to pesticides used in mosquito control, as well as vector-borne diseases such as West Nile virus, Malaria, Dengue, Rift Valley Fever, and Plague.
Preceding her time in Montana, Macedo received a Ph.D. in entomology from the University of Nebraska.
A native of Brazil, Macedo began her professional career as Veterinarian after receiving her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the Universidade Federal De Vicosa in Brazil. In 1999, she shifted her career into entomology and moved with her family to the United States.
We are thrilled that Paula found her way to our District.
Please join us in welcoming her to the Contra Costa Mosquito & Vector Control District.