Ms. Heena Joshi is an epidemiologist with the Global Foodborne Infections Network, in the Division of Foodborne Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases at the U. S Centers for Disease Control; she had held this position since May 2008.
Ms Heena Joshi received her Bachelors of Science degree in medical microbiology in 1999 and then went to pursue her Masters degree in the Control of Infectious Diseases at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 2000. Her thesis was focused on the control of the dengue vector in San Juan, Puerto Rico where she worked at the CDC Dengue branch.
Upon graduating in 2000 Ms. Joshi has worked as an epidemiologist with the Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Section of the Georgia Division of Public Health (GDPH). During her six years she had been engaged primarily in women’s health surveillance. She had acted as the liaison between the Notifiable Disease Unit and the Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Section.
Ms Joshi’s main project has been developing a surveillance protocol for enhanced maternal mortality surveillance. In order to set up the maternal mortality review panel, Ms Joshi has consulted with CDC and other states to identify the best methods; developed maternal death reporting and data abstraction forms and created the format for the review committee summaries of maternal deaths. She has also been responsible for recruiting and organizing a statewide committee of experts to review cases of maternal deaths.
Since 2007 Ms. Joshi has been working in the Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch at CDC, where she has been part of the OutbreakNet team. In this position she has managed the national foodborne diseases database, conducted analytical studies, followed clusters of foodborne disease outbreaks, assisted with case-control studies.
In her current position with the Global Foodborne Infections Network (GFN)formerly known as WHO Global Salm-Surv program Ms. Joshi has coordinated the Kenya, Guam, and Caribbean training courses to build laboratory and epidemiology capacity in these regions. She acts as a liaison between GFN and PulseNet International. She coordinates activities with the laboratory sub committee and has contributed to articles for the GFN newsletter.
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