The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services,and is headquartered in Atlanta,Georgia.
David Satcher,is an American physician,and public health administrator. He was a four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the 10th Assistant Secretary for Health,and the 16th Surgeon General of the United States.
Michael Thomas Osterholm is an American epidemiologist,Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health,and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
The Duke University School of Medicine,commonly known as Duke Med,is the medical school of Duke University. It is located in the Collegiate Gothic-style West Campus of Duke University in Durham,North Carolina. The School of Medicine,along with the Duke University School of Nursing,Duke University Hospital,Duke Regional Hospital,Duke Children's Hospital,Duke Raleigh Hospital,and other affiliated hospitals,clinics,and laboratories,make up the Duke University Health System. Established in 1925 by James B. Duke,the School of Medicine has earned its reputation as an integral part of one of the world's foremost patient care and biomedical research institutions.
Founded in 2001 by Rye Barcott,Salim Mohamed,and the late Tabitha Atieno Festo,CFK Africa is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) based in the informal settlement of Kibera in Nairobi,Kenya. Registered as an NGO in Kenya and a 501(c)(3) in the US,CFK Africa is a pioneer of grassroots participatory development,and leads a community-based sports program,girls' empowerment centre,medical clinic,maternity centre,nutrition centre,young health and wellness centre,community-health outreach program,scholarship program,entrepreneurship and economic development initiatives,and a research-based initiative to improve educational quality in informal schools in Kibera. FK Africa is also an affiliated entity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has an office at the university.
Rye Barcott is a social entrepreneur,investor,and the author of the memoir It Happened on the Way to War. He co-founded the non-profit organizations Carolina for Kibera and With Honor,and the investment firm Double Time Capital.
The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health is the public health school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,a public research university in Chapel Hill,North Carolina. It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees and is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health.
The University of North Carolina School of Medicine is a professional school within the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It offers a Doctor of Medicine degree along with combined Doctor of Medicine / Doctor of Philosophy or Doctor of Medicine / Master of Public Health degrees.
Robert Ray Redfield Jr. is an American virologist who served as the Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry from 2018 to 2021.
Thomas R. Frieden is an American infectious disease and public health physician. He serves as president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives,a $225 million,five-year initiative to prevent epidemics and cardiovascular disease.
Michael Weitzman is an American pediatrician specializing in public health and policy. He is known for his research focusing on the social and environmental determinants of child health. He has published over 150 articles in medical and scientific journals on the damaging effects of second-hand smoke,lead exposure,and countless other determinants of children's health and behavior. From 1999-2005 he served as the executive director of the Center for Child Health Research,a national research institute created by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Adaora Alise Adimora was an American doctor and academic. She was the Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine and professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Her research centered on the transmission of HIV,as well as other sexually transmitted infections (STIs),among minority populations. Her work highlighted the importance of social determinants of HIV transmission and the need for structural interventions to reduce risk. In 2019,she became an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine in recognition of her contributions.
Sten H. Vermund is the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health,and former Dean (2017-2022) of the Yale School of Public Health,and also serves as a Professor in Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine. He is a pediatrician and infectious disease epidemiologist focused on diseases of low and middle-income countries.
UNC Medical Center (UNCMC) is a 932-bed non-profit,nationally ranked,public,research and academic medical center located in Chapel Hill,North Carolina,providing tertiary care for the Research Triangle,surrounding areas and North Carolina. The medical center is the flagship campus of the UNC Health Care Health System and is made up of four hospitals that include the North Carolina Memorial Hospital,North Carolina Children's Hospital,North Carolina Neurosciences Hospital,North Carolina Women's Hospital,and the North Carolina Cancer Hospital. UNCMC is affiliated with the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. UNCMC features an ACS designated adult and pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center and has a helipad to handle medevac patients.
Giselle Corbie-Smith is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She serves as Director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research and Associate Provost of the Institute of Rural Innovation. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018. Her research considers racial disparities in healthcare.
The Carolina Population Center (CPC) is an interdisciplinary research center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. CPC was established in 1966. The primary goals of the center are to conduct research on population,health,aging,and the environment,and share data and findings that push the field forward and train the next generation of population scholars.
Nancy Messonnier is an American physician who served as the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2016 to 2021. She worked on the CDC's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
Jeffrey P. Koplan is an American physician and epidemiologist who is the Vice President for Global Health at Emory University. He established and became the first Director of the Emory Global Health Institute from 2006 to 2013. Koplan was the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1998 to 2002;he had previously worked at the CDC for more than twenty years,looking into HIV-contaminated blood,as well as the Bhopal disaster. During his tenure as Director,he fought syphilis,and supervised the investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks;before leaving the agency in March 2002.
Jay M. Bernhardt is a health communication scholar,public health leader,professor and college administrator. Bernhardt has served as the president of Emerson College since June,2023. Before that,he served as the dean of the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin from 2016 to 2023. At UT Austin,he was the founding director of the Center for Health Communication in 2015. He serves on multiple boards of directors and is the founder of national nonprofit organizations including the Alliance of Schools and Colleges of Communication and Journalism and the Society for Health Communication.
Mandy Krauthamer Cohen is an American internist,public health official,and healthcare executive serving as the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since July 10,2023. She was previously the executive vice president at Aledade and chief executive officer of Aledade Care Solution,a healthcare company.
