Spokesperson Portfolio - Christopher R. Braden, MD
Deputy Director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)
Past Positions
Director, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, National Center for Emerging Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases
Associate Director for Science, Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vectorborne and Enteric Diseases
Chief, Outbreak Response and Surveillance Team, Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch, Division of Foodborne, Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vectorborne and Enteric Diseases
Medical Epidemiologist, Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Disease
Medical Epidemiologist, Surveillance and Epidemiologic Investigations Branch, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, National Center for HIV and Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention
Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, National Center for Prevention Services
Education
Cornell University (BS)
University on New Mexico School of Medicine (MD)
New England Medical Center Hospitals (internship, residence, infectious diseases fellowship)
Braden CR, Tauxe RV. Emerging Trends in Foodborne Diseases. Infectious Diseases Clinics of North America (in press).
Braden CR, Dowell SF, Jernigan DB, Hughes JM. Progress in global surveillance and response capacity 10 years after severe acute respiratory syndrome. Emerg Infect Dis. 2013 Jun;19(6):864-9.
Painter JA, Hoekstra RM, Ayers T, Tauxe RV, Braden CR, Angulo FJ, Griffin PM. Attribution of foodborne illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths to food commodities by using outbreak data, United States, 1998-2008. Emerg Infect Dis. 2013 Mar;19(3):407-15.
Smith PF, Hadler JL, Stanbury M, Rolfs RT, Hopkins RS; CSTE Surveillance Strategy Group. "Blueprint version 2.0": updating public health surveillance for the 21st century. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2013 May-Jun;19(3):231-9.
Rolka H, Walker DW, English R, Katzoff MJ, Scogin G, Neuhaus E; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Analytical challenges for emerging public health surveillance. MMWR Surveill Summ. 2012 Jul 27;61 Suppl:35-40.
Hall HI, Correa A, Yoon PW, Braden CR. Lexicon, definitions, and conceptual framework for public health surveillance. MMWR Surveill Summ. 2012;27;61 Suppl:10-4. Review.
Pearson ML, Selby JV, Katz KA, Cantrell V, Braden CR, et al. Clinical, epidemiologic, histopathologic and molecular features of an unexplained dermopathy. PLoS One. 2012;7(1).
Behravesh CB, Blaney D, Medus C, Bidol SA, Phan Q, Soliva S, Daly ER, Smith K, Miller B, Taylor T Jr, Nguyen T, Perry C, Hill TA, Fogg N, Kleiza A, Moorhead D, Al-Khaldi S, Braden C, Lynch MF. Multistate outbreak of Salmonella serotype Typhimurium infections associated with consumption of restaurant tomatoes, USA, 2006: hypothesis generation through case exposure in multiple restaurant clusters. Epidemiol Infect. 2012 Nov; 140(11):2053-61..
Hirshon JM, Thompson AD, Limbago B, McDonald LC, Bonkosky M, Heimer R, Meek J, Mai V, Braden C. Clostridium difficile infection in outpatients, Maryland and Connecticut, USA, 2002-2007. Emerg Infect Dis. 2011 Oct;17(10):1946
Dowell SF, Braden CR. Implications of the introduction of cholera to Haiti. Emerg Infect Dis. 2011 Jul;17(7):1299-300.
Sodha SV, Lynch M, Wannemuehler K, Leeper M, Malavet M, Schaffzin J, Chen T, Langer A, Glenshaw M, Hoefer D, Dumas N, Lind L, Iwamoto M, Ayers T, Nguyen T, Biggerstaff M, Olson C, Sheth A, Braden C. Multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections associated with a national fast-food chain, 2006: a study incorporating epidemiological and food source traceback results. Epidemiol Infect. 2011 Feb;139(2):309-16. Epub 2010 Apr 30.
