Alexandra Oster, MD, a medical epidemiologist in NCHHSTP’s HIV Incidence and Case Surveillance Branch, has a wealth of experience investigating HIV. She spoke with CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, in this final 2016 Conversation with the Director to explain what she found in some of these investigations and to discuss how to decrease transmission of HIV.
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, recently sat down with Erin Staples, MD, PhD, one of the leaders in the Zika response. Staples has deployed for Zika virus response to Washington DC, Utah, and Brazil on multiple occasions and serves as one of the top subject matter experts for the CDC.
America’s public health system is one of the most advanced in the world. However, the battle to combat disease in the United States often begins internationally. This emphasis on overseas efforts was the subject discussed between CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, and Yolonda Freeman during their Conversation with the Director.
Kim Lindblade had a conversation with CDC Director Tom Frieden about public health experiences abroad and how they can better help domestic response efforts.
Frank Mahoney, MD a medical epidemiologist who works in the Global Immunization Division in the Center for Global Health, is also a former Epidemic Intelligence Service officer and retired captain of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, sat down with Brandi Limbago, PhD. Deputy Director of the Division of Healthcare and Quality Promotion’s (DHQP’s) Clinical and Environmental Microbiology Branch.
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, sat down with Pierre Rollin (who had just returned from three months of fighting Ebola in Guinea) for a Conversation with the Director.
CDC Director Tom Frieden's conversation with Dan Budnitz, MD, MPH (Capt, USPHS), director of the Medication Safety Program in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
Daniel Payne walked into the conference room with CDC Director Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, ready to share stories and answer tough questions during a Conversation with the Director.
Conversations with the Director: Arjun Srinivasan, MD
August 28, 2013
Antibiotic resistance and healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are topics of great interest to CDC Director Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH. So much so, these infections are on CDC’s list of Winnable Battles.
Conversation with the Director: Thomas Clark, MD, MPH
July 11, 2013
When Clark, began his preventive medicine residency at Oregon Health Sciences University, he had a startling realization—that epidemiology was fun—much more fun than when he learned about it in medical school.
Greta Massetti, PhD, chief, Research and Evaluation Branch, Division of Violence Prevention at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control talked with CDC Director Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, about violence prevention on April 29 in a Conversation with the Director.
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, continued his new Conversations with the Director series by discussing sickle cell disease with Althea Grant, PhD, MPH, chief, Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch, Division of Blood Disorders (DBD), NCBDDD, ONDIEH.
Conversations with the Director: Kristin M Brusuelas
February 28, 2013
Kristin M. Brusuelas, MPH, has spent more than half of her career traveling across the country and around the globe as a public health advisor for CDC.
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, spoke with health statistician Sam Notzon, PhD, about the important role of registration and vital statistics in public health around the world.
What started out as a two-year stint as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the early 1980s, has turned into a long and rewarding career with the agency for Stephen Cochi, MD, MPH.
Prevention is key in CDC’s 24/7 mission to support domestic and global partners in identifying public health problems and stopping them. And that is exactly what CDC’s fungal experts are doing in South Africa with a program to decrease and eventually stop the number of HIV patients who develop cryptococcal meningitis, a serious fungal disease of the brain and spinal column that can be fatal.
“Diabetes is a disease where ignorance isn’t bliss,” Ann Albright, PhD, RD, emphasized to CDC Director Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, during their Conversations with the Director talk. What is necessary, Albright explained, is engaging people who have diabetes or are at risk for developing diabetes and actively involving them in their preventive care.
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, and Stephanie Sansom, PhD, MPP, MPH, lead of the Prevention Modeling and Economics team, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP), share a strong interest and knowledge about programs and interventions to prevent HIV, and get high risk people tested and into care.
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, and Patrick Lammie, PhD, biologist in the Parasitic Disease Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health.
Kate Curtis, PhD, is the latest CDC staffer to sit down and chat with CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, in his monthly initiative, Conversations with the Director.
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH recently launched a new initiative called Conversations with the Director. The third participant was microbiologist Michael Shaw, PhD, associate director of Laboratory Science for the Influenza Division.
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, kicked off his new Conversations with the Director series by discussing the rotavirus program with Umesh Parashar, who leads the Enteric Viruses Epidemiology Team within CDC’s National Center for Infectious and Respiratory Diseases.