CCIV Seminar - LeAnne Fox
Location: HSRB II, 4th Floor, Conference room, N457 and Zoom
"Neisseria meningitidis: Current trends in epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance, and vaccinology"
Dr. LeAnne Fox, MD, MPH
Chief, Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Adjunct Associate Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine and the Rollin's School of Public Health, Emory University
Captain, US Public Health Service
About Dr. Fox
Dr. LeAnne Fox is a pediatric infectious disease physician and Chief of the Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she supervises and leads a branch of > 90 laboratory, epidemiology, quality assurance and program management staff and guides domestic epidemiologic and laboratory investigations, outbreak response, and policy development for bacterial vaccine preventable diseases including Neisseria meningitidis, Haemophilus influenzae, pertussis, diphtheria, and tetanus. In addition, she guides international projects focused on surveillance and vaccine evaluation for Neisseria meningitidis, diphtheria, and pertussis. She is a Technical Task Force Member for WHO’s ‘Defeat Meningitis by 2030’ Initiative and has co-authored more than eighty papers in global health, on topics ranging from neglected tropical diseases to vaccine preventable diseases.
Dr. Fox trained at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. She received her undergraduate degree from Smith College, her medical degree from The University of Connecticut, her master’s in public health from The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and a diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene from the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She began her work at CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer and has also served on the faculties of Boston University School of Public Health, International Health Department and Harvard Medical School, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Currently, she is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Emory School of Medicine in Pediatric Infectious Disease and at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health in Epidemiology and is a Captain in the US Public Health Service.
