Susan Hills
Medical Epidemiologist,
Division of Vector-Borne Diseases
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Panelist: What happens if JEV comes to North America?
Dr. Susan Hills, MBBS, MTH, is a Medical Epidemiologist in the Division of Vector-Borne Diseases at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Fort Collins, Colorado. She has worked as a public health physician for more than 25 years, with a particular focus on arboviral diseases. Susan’s interest in Japanese Encephalitis (JE) began in 1998 when she had the opportunity to investigate the first case of JE on the Australian mainland. Later she worked for many years on a project on global control of JE with the non-government organization PATH, in Seattle. She has spent the last 13 years working at CDC, where she led the Work Group developing JE vaccine recommendations for US travelers and has been investigating the impact of JE vaccination in Asia.