Global Health: A View From the Front Lines

Amanda Tiffany '04 will present “Global Health: A View From the Front Lines.” Her career in epidemiology and global health has taken her from investigating HIV/AIDS in the Democratic Republic of Congo with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to conducting Ebola outbreak surveillance for Doctors Without Borders in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. 

Today she is an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the CDC in Anchorage, Alaska, providing expertise for rapid response to outbreaks and other acute public health concerns.

Tiffany majored in biology and Spanish at Augustana before earning her master’s degree in public health from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Basel’s Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute.