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Epidemiologist
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA, United States
Ruth Link-Gelles is a Lieutenant Commander in the US Public Health Service and an epidemiologist in CDC’s Division of Viral Diseases where she serves as the program lead for COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness. She previously led planning and implementation of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in long-term care facilities. Before COVID-19, she served on the Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Herpesvirus, and Poliovirus Team and with CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion investigating outbreaks of infectious diseases in healthcare facilities. She has deployed for numerous CDC emergency responses including COVID-19, Zika in American Samoa, a concurrent Hepatitis A and mumps outbreak in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and measles in New York State.
Dr. Link-Gelles completed her BA in American History at George Washington University and her MPH at Emory University, where she studied vaccination of pregnant women during the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak. After completing her MPH, she worked on pneumococcal vaccine effectiveness in CDC’s bacterial Respiratory Diseases Branch. She earned her PhD in Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where she studied bias associated with socioeconomic status in vaccine effectiveness.
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
10:55 AM – 11:20 AM US ET