Staff Bio
Simon Agolory, MD, CAPT
Global Health Center (GHC)
CAPT Simon Agolory, MD is Acting Director for the Division of Global Health Protection. In this position he leads global programs to build critical health security systems—protecting people from global outbreaks and public health threats.
CDC role
CAPT Simon Agolory, MD leads global programs to build critical health security systems—protecting people from global outbreaks and public health threats.
Previous experience
In 2014, CAPT Agolory joined CDC's Namibia office as Country Director. He played a key role in the development and implementation of the Namibia Acceleration Plan. The plan resulted in a rapid scale-up of HIV treatment services to achieve the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets for HIV epidemic control. He was also instrumental in the development of Namibia's National Public Health Institute.
CAPT Agolory began his CDC career as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer in 2009 in the Global Health Center's Division of Global HIV and TB. Since then, he has supported the implementation of science activities and programs in Kenya, Nigeria, Swaziland, South Sudan, Papua New Guinea, Uganda, Zambia, and the Central Asia Region.
Areas of expertise
CAPT Agolory is a Medical Epidemiologist and public health expert. He is an adjunct faculty in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Bellevue NYU Hospital in New York City. CAPT Agolory has over 15 years of experience in infectious diseases and public health program development, implementation, evaluation and monitoring, and program management in low-resource settings.
Education
CAPT Agolory received his undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from North Carolina State University. He received his medical degree from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Tulane University and a fellowship in infectious diseases at New York University.