Deputy Director of Management and Operations

Joni Young
Deputy Director of Management and Operations
Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria

Joni Young is the Deputy Director of Management and Operations in the Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria.

Joni began working at CDC in 1996 conducting hantavirus surveillance in the Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Special Pathogens Branch.　 In 2001, she moved to the then Division of Parasitic Diseases and served as the human subjects contact until late 2004 when she joined the Malaria Branch as a program consultant. Joni has served as a project officer for non-research cooperative agreements and program contact for research and CDC Foundation projects. In 2006, she served on a detail as a public health analyst to help stand up the new National Center for Zoonotic, Viral, and Enteric Diseases (NCZVED). In January 2007, she joined the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion as the Principle Management Office (PMO).　She was in that role until 2009 when she transitioned to serving as a Senior Advisor to the Division Director and served through 2014.　Joni then began serving as the Deputy Director of the Division of Violence Prevention in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.　She re-joined the Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria as the Deputy Director of Management and Operations in 2019. She provides coordination and strategic oversight of division resources, including budget and personnel.

Joni received her BS in Mathematics from Northeast Louisiana University (now University of Louisiana-Monroe) and her MS in Mathematical Sciences from Clemson University.