Associate Director for Program Management, Division of Global Health Protection

CDC role

Waverly Vosburgh, M.P.H., serves as the Associate Director for Program Management in CDC’s Division of Global Health Protection, as well as Acting Director of the Operations and Administrative Support Office.

Previous experience

Vosburgh has served in operational and strategic leadership roles across CDC. She returned to global health in 2020 after serving as a strategic advisor in the Office of the Director for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), where she led cross-cutting initiatives and teams to support the workforce, enhance organizational coordination and operations, and improve internal communications across the center.

Previously, she spent four years as a Public Health Advisor for the Division of Global Health Protection (DGHP) based in the U.S.

Vosburgh started her public health career in 2009 in domestic HIV, where she spent five years as a Behavioral Scientist for the CDC Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP). In DHAP, she led the HIV risk reduction chapter of the behavioral intervention compendium and coordinated all integral activities for the Prevention Research Synthesis (PRS) Project, which identifies evidence-based interventions and best practices to help HIV prevention providers in the United States select interventions to implement within their communities.

Education

Vosburgh earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Kennesaw State University in 2005, with a major in Sociology. She also received her Master of Public Health degree from Emory University in 2010.