Dr. Douan Kirivong, currently serves as Adjunct Faculty at Gillings School of Global Public Health MPH@UNC program. Dr. Kirivong is a Captain with the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps and is currently assigned to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where she serves as Regional Associate Director overseeing global HIV & TB programs in the Americas and Kenya. Her public health career was born in Jamaica, where she served as a health volunteer with the US Peace Corps. Her public health experience includes working with the New York City Administration for Children and Families, as a consultant for the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Her federal assignments with DHHS include: The Administration for Children and Families, Office of Global Affairs, Health Services and Resources Administration and the CDC. She has devoted the last seventeen years of her career building successful global health programs with CDC’s Center for Global Health. Her overseas CDC assignments include serving as Deputy Director in Thailand, Barbados, and Jamaica. 

Her knowledge of global health security, experience establishing new overseas offices, public health management and operations, ability to convene partnerships, and visionary and strategic thinking has strengthened global capacity for rapid detection and containment of emerging infectious diseases and bioterrorist threats by enhancing global capacities in disease prevention, detection, and response. She deployed to serve in the human H1N1 Influenza (2009) response at the CDC’s Emergency Operations Center in Atlanta, GA, and Ebola (2014 and 2015) response in Conakry, Guinea, and co-led USG’s COVID-19 (2020 – 2022) pandemic response in the Caribbean region, supporting Ministries of Health and US Embassy missions across the region. Her work in the Caribbean region advancing a future of an AIDS free generation has resulted in enhanced HIV viral load coverage and viral suppression. 

Dr. Kirivong is passionate about many public health topics, to include children’s health, equity and inclusion. She is a triple Tarheel, where she holds a BS in Biology (Chemistry minor), MPH from the Department of Maternal and Child Health, and DrPH from the Department of Health Policy and Management.

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