Debbie Malden

Dr. Malden is an epidemiologist with research experience conducting large-scale population studies and assisting with various domestic and international public health responses. She completed her MSc in Global Health Science and her DPhil in Population Health at the University of Oxford. Following her DPhil, she joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2020. She also has experience working with non-government organizations on disease outbreak and humanitarian crisis response missions, such as assisting WHO during a Polio outbreak response in Papua New Guinea and overseeing disease surveillance among approximately 1 million Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh with Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without borders). She is currently working with Columbia University on a research project examining the trends and impact of orphanhood in Rakai, Uganda.