Teresa Wang
Teresa Wang (ENG’15) of Atlanta, Ga., spent two years as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) “disease detective,” a training program in applied epidemiology at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Through the training program, Teresa conducted population-level research and surveillance to guide timely decision-making in tobacco prevention and control and was honored with the center’s Director’s Award for Health Professional of the Future. She graduated from the program in June 2017. She works full time in the CDC’s office of smoking and health, on the epidemiology branch’s surveillance team. She designs, conducts, and interprets population-level data to inform tobacco prevention and control–related policy, planning, and practice.
From the Summer 2018 issue.