Leadership - CDC Global HIV & TB

Heather Pumphrey, M.A., is the Acting Deputy Director for Management and Overseas Operations and has been the Branch Chief of the Program Budget and Extramural Management Branch (PBEMB) in CDC’s Division of Global HIV & TB since the branch’s inception in 2010, while concurrently serving as the division’s Associate Director for Program Management. Heather began her career at CDC in 1999 with the Leadership In Fighting an Epidemic initiative and continued with the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) when it came to fruition in 2004. Heather earned an undergraduate degree in Social Work from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia and a Master of Arts in Public Administration from Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas.

Josef Amann, M.P.H., is the Associate Director for Program at the Division of Global HIV and TB (DGHT). Josef first came to CDC to serve in the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) in 2002. After completion of the fellowship, he served as Clinical Technical Advisor in the Sustainable Management Development Program (SMDP). In this position, he worked with Ministries of Health in Africa and Asia to strengthen the performance and management capacity of HIV/AIDS, TB, and neglected tropical disease control programs to deliver effective and efficient programs and services. He joined DGHT in 2009 as a member of the HIV Care and Treatment Branch. Josef completed medical school at the University of Ulm in Germany and holds a Master of Public Health from Emory University.

Laura Porter, Ph.D., serves as the Associate Director for Data Integration and Analysis for the Division of HIV & TB. Laura has 20 years of experience in domestic and global public health, with technical leadership in monitoring and evaluation (M&E), surveillance, and survey design and analysis. She began working at CDC’s Global AIDS Program (GAP) in 2004 as an epidemiologist on the surveillance team. She served as lead of the Monitoring and Evaluation team from 2007-2010, and chief of the Epidemiology and Strategic Information Branch from 2010 to 2016. Laura earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988, with a major in Behavioral Biology, from the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University and holds a Ph.D. from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University with concentrations in demography and epidemiology.

Nalinee Sangrujee, Ph.D., serves as the Associate Director for Health Economics, as well as Chief in the Economics and Health Services Research Branch (EHSRB). Nalinee provides strategic leadership in the area of health economics, health systems and health services research to senior agency and Office of Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) officials. Prior to assuming this position, she worked as the Deputy Coordinator of Strategic Information and Economics at OGAC. She first joined CDC in 2001 at the Global Immunization Division and has been with the Division of Global HIV and TB since 2009. Nalinee received her Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics the University of CA at Berkeley. She has a BA from Johns Hopkins University and MPH from Tulane.

Christopher Parker, Ph.D., serves as the Program Management Official (PMO) for the Division of HIV & TB (DGHT). Christopher comes to DGHT from the National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities’ Division of Blood Disorders, where he served as Deputy Division Director since 2005. Christopher has been with CDC for over 25 years and has rich experience in supporting maternal and child health programs, as well as in supporting field operations domestically. Chris holds a Ph.D. in Health Science from Touro University. He has graduate degrees from Emory University (MPH) and Louisiana State University (MPA). He completed his undergraduate work at the University of Mississippi in Respiratory Therapy.