{"id":8203,"date":"2014-11-04T15:56:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T20:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=8203"},"modified":"2014-11-04T15:56:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T20:56:44","slug":"stockton-97-shares-his-peace-corpscdc-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2014\/11\/04\/stockton-97-shares-his-peace-corpscdc-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockton \u201997 shares his Peace Corps\/CDC story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matt Stockton \u201997<\/strong> sent us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peacecorps.gov\/resources\/returned\/careercen\/career-stories\/mstockton\/\">this link<\/a> to a story by the Peace Corps office.\u00a0 Matt is Entomology Branch Deputy Chief at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\u00a0 He has been with CDC since the fall of 2002, when he joined the Public Health Prevention Program (PHPS).\u00a0 His interest in insect-borne diseases began as a result of his service as a Peace Corps Agriculture Extension Volunteer in Gabon from 1997-1999.<\/p>\n<p>Matt was a Psychology major at Wabash.\u00a0 He decided to earn a Master of Public Health at the University of South Florida after he returned to the United States from his Peace Corps service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2014\/11\/matt-stockton.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8204\" alt=\"matt stockton\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2014\/11\/matt-stockton.jpg\" width=\"213\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for sharing, Matt!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Peace Corps.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Stockton \u201997 sent us this link to a story by the Peace Corps office.\u00a0 Matt is Entomology Branch Deputy Chief at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\u00a0 He has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2014\/11\/matt-stockton.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8206,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions\/8206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}