Epidemiologist
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Laura Vonnahme, MPH is an epidemiologist and LCDR in the U.S. Public Health Service who has worked for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since 2010. She is currently an epidemiologist with the Epidemiology Team in the Surveillance, Epidemiology and Outbreak Investigations Branch within the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE) in Atlanta, GA. Prior to joining DTBE in 2017, she was an epidemiologist for the CDC Division of Global Migration and Quarantine stationed in Seattle, WA. She started her career at CDC as a CSTE/CDC Applied Epidemiology Fellow with a joint placement at the CDC Division of Global Migration and Quarantine and the Washington State Department of Health, also in Seattle. Laura’s expertise is in data management and statistical analysis, and her research interests including exploring alternate data sources as a way to address LTBI in the U.S. She is currently co-leading a multiyear collaboration with OCHIN exploring the use of EHR data to improve LTBI surveillance, and increase testing for TB infection and LTBI treatment in community health clinics. Laura earned a BS in Biology, a BA in Spanish and her MPH in Epidemiology from the University of Iowa (Go Hawks!). She is currently a second year doctoral student in epidemiology at Georgia State University.