Medical Officer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Fiona Havers, MD, MHS, FIDSA, is a Medical Officer in the U.S. CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
Dr. Havers earned a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Washington. She completed training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins University. She also obtained a Master’s of Health Science in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and completed the Epidemic Intelligence Service training in the Influenza Division at CDC. She is board certified to practice internal medicine and infectious diseases, and is a staff physician at the Atlanta VA Medical Center and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Emory University Division of Infectious Diseases.
While at CDC, Dr. Havers’ research interests have focused on the epidemiology, prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases, including RSV and COVID-19, and is currently in the Division of Viral Diseases and also on the Epidemiology Task Force in the CDC's emergency public health emergency response. She is the CDC Principal Investigator for the COVID-19-Associated Hospitalization Surveillance Network (COVID-NET), a population-based surveillance system that collects data on laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 associated hospitalizations among children and adults through a network of over 250 acute-care hospitals in 14 states, covering ~10% fo the US population. She is also the PI for RSV-NET, a similar network that monitors adult and pediatric hospitalizations for RSV.