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Lead, Epidemiology Team, Viral Gastroenteritis Branch
Division of Viral Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Dr. Jacqueline Tate is the Lead of the Viral Gastroenteritis Epidemiology Team in the Division of Viral Diseases at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She received her MSPH in epidemiology from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and her PhD in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She joined CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in 2006 and has spent over 15 years at CDC focusing on accelerating the uptake and use of rotavirus vaccines by designing and conducting studies to determine vaccine effectiveness in a variety of real-world settings, to identify reasons for diminished effectiveness in certain settings and examine strategies to overcome them, and to monitor the safety of these vaccines. Dr. Tate has published over 175 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and has given numerous presentations at scientific conferences. She has also served as guest editor on 5 supplements for leading scientific journals on rotavirus disease burden and vaccine impact. She recently served as the Epidemiology Team Lead as part of CDC’s Pediatric Hepatitis of Unknown Etiology Response. She has received several awards including the 2011 CDC Ian Hardy Award for Outstanding Contributions to Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, and the Shepard Science Award for the best prevention and control research publication by CDC staff in 2010, and a Meritorious Service Medal from the US Public Health Service in 2018 for her outstanding leadership in assuring post-licensure rotavirus vaccine safety and impact and improving access to rotavirus vaccines in sub-Saharan Africa.