Anna Marie Likos MD

Dr. Anna M. Likos is currently the State Epidemiologist as well as the Interim Deputy Secretary for Health for the Florida Department of Health. She also recently retired her commissions as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air National Guard.

Dr. Likos pursued her medical degree at the University of Oklahoma, School of Medicine, completed residency in Internal Medicine at Yale, practiced as a hospitalist in Springfield Missouri, and completed her MPH and second residency in Preventive Medicine at Johns Hopkins. She worked for the CDC as an EIS Officer in the Poxvirus branch, a Medical Epidemiologist in the Influenza Branch, as the CDC Country Director in Haiti and Ivory Coast, a resident advisor for the Field Epidemiology Training Program in Morocco and as the Deputy for the African Team in the Polio Eradication Response out of CDC’s Emergency Operations Center.

Two and a half years ago, she took on a new role as the State Epidemiologist and Director of the Division of Disease Control and Health Protection for the Department of Health in Florida. She recently stepped into the Deputy Secretary for Health Position, and currently leads the epidemiological response team for the Zika Virus.