Dr. Julie Louise Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H., is the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. As Acting Deputy Director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases, she played a major role in leading CDC's response to the anthrax bioterrorism events of 2001.

Dr. Gerberding is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at Emory University and an Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at the University of California at San Francisco. She earned a B.A. in chemistry and biology and an M.D. at Case Western Reserve University, then completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at UCSF. She earned an M.P.H. at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Gerberding has served on many health-related boards and advisory committees, and has been a consultant to the NIH, AMA, CDC, OSHA, the National AIDS Commission, and the WHO. She is Associate Editor of the American Journal of Medicine, and has authored or co-authored more than 140 peer-reviewed publications and textbook chapters on HIV prevention, management of infected healthcare personnel, and healthcare-associated infection prevention.

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