Prof. Kevin S. Griffith Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Fort Collins, USA

Kevin S. Griffith, MD, MPH is a medical epidemiologist with the Bacterial Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-borne Diseases (DVBD), National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases (NCEZID), CDC. Prof. Griffith completed a family medicine residency at the University of New Mexico and a preventive medicine residency at CDC in the... read moreMalaria Epidemiology Branch, and a Masters of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is board certified in both family and preventive medicine. Prof. Griffith received epidemic intelligence service training with the Connecticut Department of Public Health, and subsequently has worked as a medical epidemiologist in the Malaria Epidemiology Branch and the Bacterial Diseases Branch at CDC. Currently, he is collaborating with the Uganda Ministry of Health and Uganda Virus Research Institute as a principal investigator on several plague related studies including evaluations of risk factors for mortality and infection and a clinical antibiotic non-inferiority trial.