Full Name
Puja Seth
Job Title
PhD, Lead, Overdose Epidemiology and Surveillance Team
Company
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Speaker Bio
Dr. Puja Seth is the Team Lead for the Overdose Epidemiology and Surveillance Team in the Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention (DUIP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Her team is responsible for the Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) program. She has served in this capacity since February 2016 and has been at CDC since 2009. Prior to joining DUIP, Seth worked internationally and domestically on programmatic and research efforts on HIV testing and HIV service delivery, prevention with HIV-positive persons, program evaluation, national-level HIV data and data quality issues, capacity building, and providing technical assistance to states and countries. She is an adjunct faculty member in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Seth has her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Georgia and her master's degree from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. She has over 55 publications in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and government reports, and she has given over 85 presentations.
Puja Seth