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Bilingual (English, French) public health expert with >25 years of senior management and field experience (20 years U.S. CDC; 14 years in Africa). Strong technical skills in epidemiology, prevention, surveillance, survey design, and mentoring (e.g. manuscript writing). Demonstrated history of complex project development and working in outbreak response (e.g. Ebola, COVID-19) and emergency health. |
 Contact Reinhard Kaiser
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Area of Expertise: |
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Capacity Building, Training, Advocacy
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Director, CEO, COP, President
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Disaster, Aid, Emergencies, Relief
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Health, Doctors, Nurses, HIV/AIDS
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research, Analysis
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Professional Experience: |
2019-21: Program Director and global health security lead at the U.S. CDC Office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2016-19: Associate Director for Science (ADS) at the U.S. CDC Office in Sierra Leone. Technical lead and director for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded establishment of a Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) site in Makeni, Sierra Leone.
2012-16: WHO African Region’s Intercountry Support Team for Southern and Eastern Africa in Harare, Zimbabwe, to support immunization programs in 20 countries (detailed from U.S. CDC).
2007-11: ADS and Chief of Epidemiology, Surveillance and Informatics Branch for the U.S CDC Division of Global HIV/AIDS in Nairobi, Kenya.
2005-6: Deputy Chief of Influenza Preparedness at the newly established European CDC in Stockholm, Sweden.
2001-5: HIV/AIDS lead at the CDC International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch in Atlanta, U.S.
1999-2001: Epidemic Intelligence Service, CDC, Atlanta, U.S.
1993-1998: Research Fellow, Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, Basel, Switzerland.
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Education: |
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MD from the University of Hamburg, Germany; MPH from the University of Hanover, Germany; diploma in tropical medicine from the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany; Epidemic Intelligence Service, CDC, Atlanta, U.S.
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Affiliations and Achievements: |
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of International Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, U.S. (2004-05).
>80 peer-reviewed publications.
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