Director, Office of Mathematical Modeling, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. Rachel Slayton is a Ph-D trained epidemiologist and infectious disease modeler. She leads a mathematical modeling unit focused on healthcare-associated infections and multi-drug resistant organisms in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Epidemiology Research and Innovations Branch. She is the Scientific Director for the Modeling Infectious Diseases in Healthcare (MInD-Healthcare) network and co-led CDC’s COVID-19 mathematical modeling unit.