Ms. Pryde joined the staff of CUPHD in June of 1995 as a Program Consultant in the Division of Social Services and as the Project Director for the IL Region 6 HIV Prevention Implementation Group. In 2001, she was hired as the Director of the Division of HIV/STD/TB Prevention and Management at CUPHD. In 2005 the Division expanded to include communicable diseases and adult immunizations. She was Director of the newly formed Division of Infectious Disease Prevention and Management. In May of 2007 Ms. Pryde was appointed Acting Public Health Administrator by the CUPHD Board of Health. In November of 2008 Ms. Pryde was appointed as the first female Public Health Administrator in CUPHD's history. CUPHD was created in 1937.
Ms. Pryde is an accomplished grant writer, researcher, and speaker. She is published in professional journals including Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, Journal of Infectious Disease, The Journal of Adolescence, Proceedings of the International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance 2011, Life: the Excitement of Biology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, and Child and Adolescent Social Work. In addition to presenting at numerous Illinois conferences, she has presented at such national conferences as the American Public Health Association, National Association of City and County Health Officials, NetSmart's Connections, International Mobile Health Conference, the US Conference on AIDS, and the National Harm Reduction Conference.
Ms. Pryde has won awards from the IL Department of Public Health, The University of Illinois School of Social Work, The Greater Community AIDS Project, IL Public Health Association, the IL Association of Agencies and Community Organizations for Migrant Advocacy; Girl Scouts of Central IL, Rotary, United Way of Champaign, and University of Illinois at Springfield. She participated in the Mid-America Regional Public Health Leadership Institute, and in the Kresge Foundation’s Emerging Leaders in Public Health, Cohort III.
Ms. Pryde currently serves on University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Institutional Biosafety Committee; The Midwest Alliance for Applied Genomic Epidemiology; The Chancellor’s Campus Community Compact to Eliminate Racism; and the Boldly Transformational Health Innovation Task Force; and as the Co-chair for the 21st Century Initiative for Illinois Public Health.
Ms. Pryde has served on the Illinois State Board of Health; as an Investigator for the Home Access' FDA Post-Marketing Surveillance Study; National Association of County and City Health Official's Zika Advisory Council; Illinois Immunization Advisory Committee; the University of Illinois, School of Social Work's Field Advisory Committee; and the UIUC, College of ACES, Department of Human Development and Family Studies External Advisory Committee.
