Tara Kirk Sell was born on July 12,1982 and is an American former competition swimmer and breaststroke specialist who is an Olympic silver medalist.
17 Facts About Tara Kirk
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Tara Kirk is a former world record holder in the 100-meter breaststroke.
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Tara Kirk has won a total of fifteen medals in major international competition, three gold, seven silver, and five bronze spanning the Olympics, the World Championships, the Pan Pacific Championships, and the Summer Universiade.
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Tara Kirk is the former American Record holder in the 50-meter, 100-meter, and 200-meter breaststrokes.
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Tara Kirk is the first woman to swim the 100-yard breaststroke in under 58 seconds.
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Tara Kirk previously held the 100 short-course meter breaststroke world record at 1:04.79 but this was beaten by Leisel Jones on August 28,2006.
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Tara Kirk finished third at the 2008 US Olympic Trials by one-hundredth of a second and did not qualify for the 2008 Olympic Games in the 100-meter breaststroke.
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Tara Kirk had decided to not swim the 200-meter breaststroke in order to concentrate on the 100.
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Tara Kirk completed her PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management, where she was a Sommer Scholar.
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Tara Kirk received a BA in human biology and an MA in anthropological sciences from Stanford University.
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Tara Kirk is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering and a senior associate at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Tara Kirk serves as an associate editor of the peer-reviewed journal Health Security.
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Tara Kirk's work focuses on improving public health policy and practice in order to reduce the health impacts of disasters and terrorism.
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Tara Kirk is currently principal investigator on two projects investigating policy development and risk communication in disease outbreaks.
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Tara Kirk has led several research projects to provide strategic recommendations regarding the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment Process and the Chemical and Biological Defense Division in DHS.
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Tara Kirk co-authored the Rad Resilient City Preparedness Checklist, which provides cities and their neighbors with actions to save lives in the event of a nuclear detonation.
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Tara Kirk co-authored a comprehensive analysis of preparedness activities in communities located in the Emergency Planning Zones of nuclear power plants.