Staff Bio
Heather Menzies, M.D., M.P.H.
Global Health Center (GHC)
Dr. Menzies is the Acting Principal Deputy Director of CDC’s Division of Global Health Protection (DGHP).
CDC role
Dr. Menzies is the Acting Principal Deputy Director of CDC’s Division of Global Health Protection.
Previous experience
Prior to her current role, Dr. Menzies served as Senior Advisor in the Office of the Director.
Dr. Menzies has been with CDC since 2006, serving overseas from 2013 to 2020 in Namibia, Indonesia, and Tanzania. In 2013, Dr. Menzies joined CDC Namibia as the TB/HIV Advisor in the Division of Global HIV/AIDS. In this role, Dr. Menzies worked closely with the Namibia Ministry of Health and Social Services and their partners to strengthen the implementation of TB/HIV collaborative activities to reduce the burden of TB and HIV in Namibia.
In 2015, she joined DGHP and moved to Jakarta, Indonesia to lead the CDC Country Office. As the CDC Indonesia Country Director, she led CDC's efforts in Indonesia to support strengthening capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease and other health threats.
In 2018, she joined CDC Tanzania in the Division of Global HIV and TB initially as the Associate Director for Data, Science, and Quality Improvement and then as the Associate Director for Workforce Development and Organizational Effectiveness.
Dr. Menzies began her career at CDC in 2006 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer in the International Research and Programs Branch (IRPB) in the Division of TB Elimination (DTBE). After completing EIS, she joined the TB/HIV Team in IRPB/DTBE in Atlanta as the Technical Lead for Childhood TB and led the expansion of CDC's role in global maternal and childhood TB and TB/HIV activities.
Education
Dr. Menzies received her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine and completed residency in general pediatrics at the University of Washington in Seattle. Following residency, she was a National Research Service Award Post-Doctoral Fellow in Dental Public Health Sciences at the University of Washington and then a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, also at the University of Washington, where she would also receive her Master of Public Health.