Melissa

A.

Marx

,

PhD

Melissa A. Marx, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is currently leading the Bloomberg School’s support of the Baltimore City health department’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She is the lead author of the School’s Recommendations for a Metropolitan COVID-19 Response and a senior editor of the associated special emphasis series. She is faculty co-lead of the Surveillance Outbreak Response Team (SORT). Her non-outbreak work includes evaluating global maternal, child health and HIV/TB/malaria programs and developing methods and metrics to drive better collection and use of data for program improvement. Dr. Marx spent over 13 years practicing epidemiology including responding and leading responses to outbreaks for the CDC, first as an Epidemic Intelligence Officer, later as a senior epidemiologist for CDC at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and then for CDC overseas. In addition to setting agendas for, using data from and overseeing HIV/AIDS evaluation and research, she has set up and monitored surveillance systems, including for antibiotic resistant organisms such as MRSA, and has responded to outbreaks including as SARS, H1N1, Ebola, zoonotic anthrax, cholera, typhoid, food-borne illness (and others) and prepared and overseen teams responding to other various public health threats.