Lorraine Yeung MPH, MD, FACPM

Dr. Lorraine F. Yeung, MPH, MD, FACPM is a Medical Epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Yeung received her MD from Georgetown University and her MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed a combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and a preventive medicine residency at Johns Hopkins University. She is board certified in public health and general preventive medicine. Dr. Yeung joined CDC as an epidemic intelligence service officer in 2002 in the Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at NCBDDD and has remained in the same division. Her current research focuses on folic acid and the prevention of neural tube defects globally. She has been involved in public health preparedness and response activities at CDC. She has been a member at ACPM since 1999 and was the Planning Committee chair for Preventive Medicine 2006. She is currently the chair of the ACPM Scientific Review Committee and a planning committee member of Prevention 2019.