Speakers

Kathryn B. Anderson, MD/PhD, is a physician-scientist, an internist and epidemiologist, with 20 years of experience researching emerging infectious diseases. In this capacity, she has worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US Army, and multiple academic institutions. She received her Masters of Science in Public Health, her MD, and her PhD in epidemiology from Emory University and has worked for several years as an internal medicine physician and as a federally-funded researcher conducting community-based research in Asia on mosquito-borne viruses such as dengue and chikungunya. She moved to Central New York from Minnesota in late 2019 to lead SUNY Upstate’s Center for International Research and was quickly pulled into the response to SARS-CoV-2 at the institutional and community level. She began her role as County Health Commissioner in Onondaga County in early November 2022, in which capacity she has broadened her scope to tackle both communicable and non-communicable health threats such as lead poisoning, drug user health, and health disparities.