Michele Casper PhD

Dr. Casper is the Team Lead for the Small Area Analysis Team within the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at CDC. The activities of her team include the Interactive Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke, the GIS Capacity Building Project for State and Local Health Departments, The Chronic Disease GIS Exchange, and the study of Spatio-temporal trends in heart disease and stroke. She is interested in reducing the geographic disparities in heart disease and stroke and using local-level data to tailor heart disease and stroke prevention efforts to the specific needs of communities. Michele received her doctorate in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina.