Professor Aileen Marty served as a Naval officer for 25 years and has more than 40 years of clinical and research work in the fields of infectious disease, public health, outbreak response, & mass gatherings. 

She also works with the World Health Organization and has responded to disease outbreaks around the world.

Dr. Marty is a public health expert who advises the district and county on the realities behind the COVID-19 numbers. Those who have heard her speak at committee meetings and in public appreciate her direct, frank approach. She has not hesitated to ask the difficult questions that speak to the underlying realities of the health crisis we are facing in the reopening of schools for face-to-face instruction. 

For example, Dr. Marty publicly questioned the practice of artificially lowering the reported infection rates by conflating molecular and antigen testing, terming the practice "political trickery" (August 27th). Further, she points out that is it one thing to open a restaurant, where you have some control over the environment, but much more challenging to open schools where you have young people who may not grasp the danger of the situation. 

Advising the district's health committee on September 18th, Dr. Marty "drove the conversation," according to the Herald, asking direct questions about the district’s preparedness, from air quality and ventilation to how high-risk activities like music programs will be handled.