We love to present and raise awareness about ticks and tick-borne diseases, tailoring our presentations to fit the audience and geographic location. We translate the latest research and share what we have learned from our research and outreach experiences. Some past presentations included Salem Rotary Club, Virginia Tech's Science on Tap at Silo Brewery, Elizabeth's Early Learning Center in Lynchburg and Warm Hearth Village in Blacksburg. For more information or to schedule a presentation, contact ticksinvirginia@gmail.com 

We offer workshops on tick identification, surveillance, and prevention. Highlights have included workshops with Master Naturalists and Governor's School high school students. Participants learn how to identify various types of ticks at different stages of life and conduct tick surveillance through tick dragging, and prevention behaviors, including tick spraying, tick checking, and tick removal.  Participants leave more confident in their ability to prevent a tick bite and what to do if they get bitten. 

We also enjoy presenting internationally. Highlights include the 1st European Tick-borne Disease Conference in Paris, France in March, 2025, the 16th International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis and Other Tick-borne Diseases Conference in Amsterdam in 2023,  the 23rd International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society Conference in Orlando in 2023, and the 3rd International Symposium to Advance Total Worker Health at the National Institutes of Health in 2023.  

Dr. Jenny Hall, Founder of Ticks in Virginia, regularly presents at conferences and professional meetings.  She utilizes a One Health framework to identify regionally specific risks, integrates real stories from people impacted by tick-borne diseases, and shares prevention strategies. 

Past presentations include the Appalachian Regional Translation Research Network where she mapped and reported nearly 94% of Appalachian counties had a reported tick-borne disease between 2019-2022, a Radford University Provost Series RAD Talk, and the 2025 American Public Health Association Conference in Washington D.C. Additional  presentations include the Johns Hopkins 4th Annual Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases Symposium, the 2026 Virginia Council of Nurse Practitioner's Conference, and the Southeastern North Carolina Environmental Health District Quarterly Meeting, 

Dr. Hall also shares stories of people's lived experiences with tick-borne diseases shared through her lived experience studies and community outreach. In 2025, she presented on the lived experiences of adults with alpha-gal syndrome and its impact on quality of life at the 1st European Conference on Tick-borne Diseases. It was the only presentation on alpha-gal syndrome at the conference and helped raise awareness among attendees from 21 countries. 

She is currently working on a book about how having alpha-gal symdrome impacts overall health and well-being.