Future Leaders in Infections and Global Health Threats (FLIGHT) is a program that trains fellows to address public health threats. Participants in the program are known as officers. Find current FLIGHT officers and their assignments below.
Current classes
Meet the current FLIGHT officers and learn about their assignments. Note: the assignments listed do not reflect outbreak or other emergency response efforts.
2023
Shanice Battle, PhD, MPH; ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Division of STD Prevention
Laura Castro, DrPH, MPH; ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø National Center of Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Influenza Division, Global Influenza Branch
Mellisa Roskosky, PhD, MSPH; ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases
2022
Alyson Cavanaugh, DPT, MPH, PhD; Lieutenant in the United States Public Health Service; ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases
Katherine Franc, DVM, MPH; ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø Center for Global Health, Division of Global Health Protection
2021
Farrell Tobolowsky, DO, MS; ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø Center for Global Health, Global Immunization Division
Michelle Waltenburg, DVM, MPH; ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology
