Susan Cookson

Dr. Cookson started her love of TB as a physician out of internship working in the warzone of Nicaragua for the ministry of health in the late 1980s. She most recently sent her junior officer to work with the National TB Program surveillance systems in Lebanon and Jordan. This is a follow-up to the prior work that they conducted after providing technical assistance for developing the TB public health strategy among Syrian refugees in Jordan. She has travelled extensively in Latin America, Africa and Asia working with displaced and refugee populations, developing monitoring and evaluation frameworks for refugee healthcare services and surveillance systems, training young scientists, performing operational research, and responding to disasters, man-made, natural, and infectious. Her expertise is infectious diseases research in resource-limited settings. Susan is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, and a specialist in Preventive Medicine. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Global Health Dept., Rollins School of Public Health, Emory Univ. She has written over 50 peer-review articles.