MARC Seminar with Dr. Sasha McGee
Senior Infectious Disease Epidemiologist at DC Health
Monday, March 25, 2019 · 12 - 1 PM
Dr. Sasha McGee will share her lecture, "On the Front Lines of Public Health: Case Studies of Surveillance and Investigation of Enteric Diseases." Sasha McGee is a Senior Infectious Disease Epidemiologist in the Center for Policy, Planning, and Evaluation (CPPE) at the District of Columbia Department of Health (DC Health), a position she has held for three and a half years. She conducts surveillance and outbreak investigations for infectious diseases, with a focus on foodborne diseases and Legionnaires’ disease. As part of her work, she provides guidance on communicable disease reporting, testing, management, and prevention to healthcare providers and other healthcare facility staff, agencies and organizations (such as state health departments and Federal agencies), and the public. Prior to this position, she worked at DC Health in her current Administration for two years as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As an EIS Officer she helped establish the DC Health active monitoring program for recent travelers from Ebola-affected countries, developed Ebola-related informational materials that were distributed to healthcare providers and recent travelers and posted on the Department’s website, participated in the CDC’s Ebola response activities in Dallas, Texas, and conducted active monitoring of travelers who visited or resided in DC. Dr. McGee received a Master of Public Health degree in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a doctoral degree in Health Sciences and Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
