Executive Leadership & Expert Bios

Jonathan Yoder, MSW, MPH

Epidemiologist, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Disease, NCEZID

Jonathan S. Yoder, MSW, MPH, is the team lead for the Domestic Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Epidemiology Team in the National Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases (NCEZID).

Jonathan received his MSW and MPH from the University of South Florida. He joined the CDC Public Health Prevention Service in 2003 and in 2004 was assigned to the Illinois Department of Public Health. He returned to CDC in 2006 to coordinate CDC’s Waterborne Disease and Outbreak Surveillance System.

Jonathan’s areas of expertise include waterborne disease outbreak investigations and supporting state and local health departments. Additionally, he is responsible for summarizing the epidemiological data on Cryptosporidium and Giardia and for collecting and analyzing clinical and epidemiological data on the free-living amebae Acanthamoeba, Balamuthia, and Naegleria fowleri.

The mission of the Domestic Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Epidemiology Team is to protect the health of the American people by understanding waterborne disease and outbreaks and developing effective prevention strategies.

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