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Senior Scientist for Correctional Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, United States
Liesl Hagan serves as Senior Scientist for Correctional Health in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Office of the Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases. In this position, she advocates for correctional health as a critical component of public health. Liesl collaborates internally to ensure that incarcerated populations are included in CDC strategy and programs, and she partners externally with correctional and detention facilities and governmental and community-based organizations to promote evidence-based healthcare practices in carceral settings.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Liesl founded and led the COVID-19 Corrections Unit within the CDC emergency response, where she and her team developed guidance specifically for correctional and detention facilities. She developed a wide network of partners in the field to collaborate on disease surveillance, data analysis, and outbreak investigations. In addition, she was detailed to the Federal Bureau of Prisons as their Epidemiologist to consult on pandemic response.
Prior to her current role, she worked as an Epidemiologist for 8 years in CDC’s Division of Viral Hepatitis, focusing on correctional populations, and she served as co-Chair for the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention’s Correctional Health Working Group.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Thursday, October 20, 2022
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM US ET
Thursday, October 20, 2022
10:30 AM – 10:55 AM US ET