Dr. Christine Mattson works at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the Overdose Epidemiology and Surveillance Team as a Health Scientist. Dr. Mattson has a doctorate in epidemiology and joined CDC in 2007 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer working in the Global AIDS Program. She has worked in the field of HIV prevention and surveillance domestically and internationally for over 15 years. She has a strong interest in epidemiology methods and surveillance and most of her previous publications focused on behavioral and clinical outcomes of people living with HIV. Since joining the Overdose Epidemiology and Surveillance Team, she has co-authored the first annual "Surveillance Report of Drug-Related Risks and Outcomes — United States, 2017," and she serves as a science officer on the Enhanced State Opioid Surveillance program.