Division of Viral Diseases (DVD)

Our Mission

The Division of Viral Diseases’ (DVD) mission is to prevent disease, disability, and death from viral diseases through immunization and other prevention measures.

Our Objectives

DVD’s objectives are to

• Optimize the safe, efficient, and effective use of vaccines and other known ways to prevent viral diseases
• Identify, characterize, and evaluate new ways to prevent viral diseases
• Effectively and efficiently respond to outbreaks of respiratory and enteric viral disease
• Improve local and state and global capacity to prevent disease and respond to outbreaks caused by respiratory and enteric viruses
• Attract, train, and retain the best leaders, managers, and scientists

Our Organization

The proposed organization of the Division of Viral Diseases as of June 2017 is as follows:

Office of the Director

• Steve Oberste –Director (acting)
• Tom Clark – Deputy Director
• April Allman – Associate Director of Program Management
• Mark Sotir – Associate Director for Epidemiologic Science
• William Weldon – Associate Director for Laboratory Science
• Karen Mason – Associate Director for Policy
• Jeanette St. Pierre – Associate Director for Communication Science
• Arunmozhi Balajee – Associate Director for Global Health Science
• Aaron Curns – Team Lead for Analysis and Data Management Activity

Viral Gastroenteritis Branch

• Umesh Parashar – Chief
• Margaret Okomo-Adhiambo – Deputy Branch Chief (acting)

Team Leaders

• Jacqueline Tate – Rotavirus Epidemiology
• Jan Vinjé – Norovirus Laboratory
• Baoming Jiang – Rotavirus Vaccines and Immunology
• Michael Bowen – Rotavirus Surveillance and Molecular Epidemiology
• Sara Mirza – Norovirus Epidemiology (acting)

Polio and Picornavirus Laboratory Branch

• Cara Burns – Chief (acting)
• Youness Elhamidi – Deputy Branch Chief

Team Leaders

• Jaume Jorba – Molecular Epidemiology and Surveillance (acting)
• Bernardo Mainou – Population Immunity
• Jennifer Anstadt – Vaccine Development
• Everardo Vega – Polio Molecular Diagnostic Development
• Allan Nix – Picornavirus
• Janell Routh – Acute Flaccid Myelitis and Domestic Polio

Respiratory Viruses Branch

• Aron Hall – Chief (acting)
• Lee Ann Ramsey – Deputy Branch Chief

Team Leaders

• Gayle Langley – Respiratory Syncytial Virus
• Steve Lindstrom – Respiratory Viruses Diagnostic
• Natalie Thornburg – Respiratory Viruses Immunology
• Suxiang Tong – Pathogen Discovery
• John Watson – Respiratory Viruses Surveillance and Outbreak Support

Viral Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch

• Paul Rota – Chief
• Farrah (F.E.) Harrison – Deputy Branch Chief

Team Leaders

• Manisha Patel – Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Herpesviruses
• Bettina Bankamp – Measles
• Carole Hickman – Mumps
• Joe Icenogle – Rubella Virus
• Scott Schmid – Herpesvirus
• Lauri Markowitz – Human Papillomavirus

Who We Are

• Proposed DVD organizational chart pdf icon[1 page] June 2020

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