Sherri Berger, MSPH `96, is COO at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the largest Ebola epidemic in history The recent Ebola virus outbreak – the largest in the virus’s history – has made the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) one of the busiest places to […]
Hand-washing stations, quarantine checkpoints, burial teams, and ambulances traversing the countryside were new sights for Dr. Heather Clayton, 2010 College of Public Health PhD graduate, who said she had only vaguely imagined that level of ground-zero public health duty before deploying to Sierra Leone this fall as part of the […]
Megan Gumke, MPH, CPH is a regional epidemiologist and laboratory liaison with the Florida Department of Health. Based in Orlando, her territory includes eight counties in East-Central Florida. Ms. Gumke’s duties include assisting the eight health departments with disease surveillance and reporting, case and outbreak investigations, planned public health studies, […]