Ruth Link-gelles PhD, MPH

Ruth Link-Gelles serves as an epidemiologist in the CDC’s Division of Viral Diseases. She completed her MPH in epidemiology at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health in 2010 and worked in CDC’s Division of Bacterial Diseases from 2010-2016, primarily focused on surveillance for invasive pneumococcal disease and vaccine effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccines. After completing her PhD in 2016 at the University of North Carolina, she joined the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) in 2016 and served in the Division of Viral Hepatitis working on hepatitis C elimination in the country of Georgia. After EIS, she served in CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion working on outbreak response in healthcare settings.