Health Scientist, Alzheimer’s Disease Program Team
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Akilah Ali began her career at CDC the summer of 2019, as an epidemiology intern in the Child Development Studies team in the National Center of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD). In 2020, she became an ORISE fellow in NCBDDD supporting the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network. She then served in the COVID-19 response for almost two and a half years as an Epidemiologist (contractor) in the COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Unit, where she supported vaccine impact and breakthrough surveillance to monitor the impact of COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infection case and death rates, and then in the Increasing Community Access to Testing Team (ICATT) as the data unit lead. She is currently a Health Scientist with CDC on the Alzheimer's Disease Science Team in the Division of Population Health. Akilah grew up in Southern California and received her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychobiology and Master of Public Health degree, with a concentration in Epidemiology, both from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Monday, August 26, 2024
1:30 PM – 2:45 PM ET