Kavita K. Trivedi, MD
Principal
Dr. Kavita K. Trivedi, Founder of Trivedi Consults, is a values-driven medical expert who consults nationally and internationally, including in her home state of California.
Trivedi Consults takes great care in advising businesses, public sector entities, non-profit organizations and healthcare settings to safely operate taking into account communicable diseases such as COVID-19. Dr. Trivedi's leadership is rooted in antimicrobial resistance and her experience spans the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), California Department of Public Health, Alameda County Public Health Department and as a proud member of the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). She is the author of numerous publications related to infectious disease epidemiology including limiting antimicrobial resistance through promotion of antimicrobial stewardship and infection control and implementation science in healthcare settings.
Prior to working for the state public health system, Dr. Trivedi served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in the United States Public Health Service with CDC’s Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Trivedi was honored to serve on the antimicrobial resistance working group for President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in 2014-2015. Currently Dr. Trivedi is the Director for Clinical Guidance and the Communicable Disease Controller for the Alameda County Public Health Department.
In addition to her work as an epidemiologist, Dr. Trivedi served as an attending physician in the Emergency Department and Tele-Health Program at the San Francisco Veterans' Administration Health System from 2010-2022.
Dr. Trivedi received her medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine and completed residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is board certified in Internal Medicine. Kavita is a proud mother of two boys and resides with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Barbara DeBaun RN, MSN, CIC
Barbara has over 40 years of experience in the field of infection prevention and quality improvement. She is currently an Improvement Advisor with Cynosure Health where she provides vision and leadership in the development, implementation and facilitation of infection prevention and quality improvement initiatives for healthcare organizations. Previously, she was an Improvement Advisor for BEACON, the Bay Area Patient Safety Collaborative, and was the Director of Patient Safety and Infection Control at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. She is currently adjunct faculty at Dominican University of California. Barbara served two years as an elected member of APIC Board of Directors. Prior to her board service, she served as APIC’s liaison to the Centers for Disease Control’s Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). Barbara has lectured nationally and internationally on a variety of patient safety and infection control topics and has published over a dozen articles and several book chapters. In 2008, she was selected as Infection Control Today’s Educator of the Year. Barbara is a certified Infection Control Practitioner and holds a Bachelor’s degree in nursing from Pace University in New York and a Master of Science Degree in Nursing from San Francisco State University.
Valerie Deloney, MBA
Valerie has more than 15 years of experience in content development and communications for scientific organizations. She has been the project manager for more than twenty guidance documents and guidelines, and has participated as an author in ten peer reviewed research papers and practice documents as of May 2020. For the past eight years she has worked as a consultant for healthcare and environmental organizations, overseeing development of manuscripts, tool kits, and other projects with budgets of a few hundred dollars to over $2 million. She has designed, launched, and been lead administrator for a variety of websites, online courses, guidance documents, research manuscripts, newsletters, and more.
Brad Hutton, MPH
Brad has more than 26 years of experience in public health, including ten years in executive leadership positions at the New York State Department of Health including Deputy Commissioner of Public Health. In New York State, Brad was responsible for all public health programs, 3,000 employees and a broad range of program areas supported by $5 billion in annual funding. He was the Department's Incident Commander leading public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, Legionellosis, measles and Zika outbreaks, as well as the nation's-leading response to emerging contaminants in drinking water and other environmental health threats. He directed all community health programs including tobacco control, family planning, immunization and emergency preparedness. He led the development of New York's antimicrobial resistance statewide plan, and is an expert on healthcare facility infection control. While working for New York State, Brad helped secure legislation prohibiting non-medical exemptions for school vaccines and a prohibition of e-cigarette flavorings.