Denise Garrett, M.d., M.sc.

Biography

Denise Garrett, M.D., M.Sc., joined Sabin Vaccine Institute in August 2015 to lead Sabin's work on typhoid. She serves as Director of the Coalition against Typhoid Secretariat and leads a large surveillance project to help determine the burden of typhoid in Asia. Dr. Garrett received her medical training in Brazil with special focus on infectious diseases, including typhoid fever. For the past 23 years, Denise worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) where she focused on international health and epidemiologic research, leading several multicenter research studies. During her tenure with CDC, Dr. Garrett led several multicenter infectious disease studies in developing and developed countries. Denise brings extensive experience collaborating with international governments, multilateral agencies, universities, private sector, non-governmental, and global health organizations to expand infectious disease control and prevention, and outbreak response programs around the world.  

Research Interest

international health and epidemiologic research