Melinda Moore

Melinda Moore is a public health physician and Senior Natural Scientist at RAND Corporation since 2005. Prior to that, she served with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 20 years and the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office Global Health Affairs for five years. Her principal career focus has been global health, and her areas of expertise include child survival and nutrition, infectious disease surveillance and control, environmental health and urbanization, safe drinking water, and health and foreign policy. At RAND, she has focused on infectious disease surveillance, public health and pandemic influenza preparedness, military health, and environmental health. Public health preparedness projects she has led or participated in have: compared plans and response to potential anthrax incidents; identified strategies for improving global influenza surveillance; implemented tabletop pandemic influenza preparedness exercises in the United States, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. She has led or co-led military health projects related to medical intelligence, community disaster preparedness, the DoD Serum Repository, Army veterinarians in stability operations, and evaluation of humanitarian assistance efforts. She leads RAND’s efforts, working with the University of North Carolina, to help develop a long-term strategy and medium term action plan for environmental health in the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Moore is board certified in pediatrics and preventive medicine; has worked in over 45 countries; and speaks five languages. She is a retired Medical Officer (Captain, O6) of the U.S. Public Health Service.