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Medical Officer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA, United States
Agam Rao, MD is a medical officer with the Poxvirus and Rabies Branch of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Rao began her public health career as a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in 2009; since then, she has focused on characterizing the clinical presentation of rare and life-threatening pathogens, leading outbreak investigations of diverse infections, and developing national guidelines including recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Dr. Rao has participated in many public health responses including the epidemiologic investigation of the first non-travel associated COVID-19 cases in the United States (2020); cluster of myopericarditis cases associated with smallpox vaccination among US army personnel (2018); neurologic illness of unknown etiology in rural Ethiopia (2015); sustained transmission of Ebola virus disease in rural Liberia during the west Africa Ebola epidemic (2014-2015); and botulism outbreaks due to contaminated illicit alcohol in prisons (2011-2013). She is a poxvirus subject matter expert and has served in several roles of CDC Binational Monkeypox Response including as epidemiology task force lead. Dr. Rao is a Captain in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service and a fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
1:30 PM – 3:15 PM US ET
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
1:30 PM – 1:50 PM US ET