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Professor, Rollins School of Public Health and Emory Global Health Institute
Emory University
Dr. Whitney became the Principal Investigator and Executive Director of the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) program in 2020. CHAMPS is a large multicounty program operating in 7 countries that generates accurate information on causes of child mortality using cutting edge diagnostic techniques; CHAMPS is based in the Emory Global Health Institute. Dr. Whitney became a Professor at Emory University in the Rollins School of Public Health, Hubert Department of Global Health in 2019. Before that, she was Chief of the Respiratory Diseases Branch in the Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and had worked for 25 years at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Her expertise includes extensive work on pneumococcal disease, pneumonia, antimicrobial resistance, vaccination policy and effectiveness evaluations, disease surveillance, and outbreak investigations. She has over 200 publications including peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and invited commentaries focusing on public health issues in the U.S. and in developing country settings. She Is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and a frequent consultant for the World Health Organization and other multilateral agencies.
Dr. Whitney graduated from Iowa State University, in Ames, Iowa, with a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Engineering Science. Following that, she obtained a degree in medicine and completed a residency in internal medicine through the University of Minnesota. At CDC, she completed the Epidemic Intelligence Officer program and a residency in Preventive Medicine. She obtained her Masters of Public Health from Harvard University. Dr. Whitney has been board certified in Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine.
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Saturday, October 24, 2020
1:15pm – 3:00pm EDT
