Leah R. Vincent received her doctoral degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences' Emerging Infectious Diseases interdisciplinary program. She is a former Lieutenant in the United States Navy, has served as a Presidential Management Fellow with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and as an Embassy Science Fellow with the U.S. Department of State. She currently works as the Program Officer for Basic Research on Sexually Transmitted Infections in the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at NIAID.