Meet the Mentors

ELI is paused for 2024. Please check back in Fall 2024 for updates to apply to ELI 2025.

Mentoring is an important part of what makes our fellowship successful. Meet the highly skilled professionals who served as CDC E-learning Institute Fellowship mentors in 2023.

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Doris Harris, MSc

ELI Fellowship Lead
CDC National Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial
Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce
Division of Workforce Development

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Michelle Houston, MSc, M.Ed

CDC National Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial
Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce
Division of Laboratory Systems

Blaine Connor

Blaine P. Connor, PhD, MA

Chenega Enterprise Systems and Solutions, LLC (contractor)
CDC National Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial
Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce
Division of Workforce Development

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Valencia Terrell, MS

Cherokee Nation Operational Solutions (contractor)
CDC National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Division of Global Migration and Quarantine

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Alyssa Azhari, PhD

Chenega Professional and Technical Services (contractor)
CDC National Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial
Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce
Division of Workforce Development

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Adam Judge

Tanaq Support Services (contractor)
CDC National Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial
Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce

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Anna Curtis, MS

U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Transit Administration

Cynthia Jenkins

Cynthia Jenkins, MBA-PA, MIS

Po’okela Solutions, LLC (contractor)
CDC National Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial
Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce
Division of Workforce Development

Elizabeth McLaren

Elizabeth McLaren

Wisconsin Department of Health Services
Office of Health Informatics
Division of Public Health

Phyllis Stoll

Phyllis Stoll, MPH, MCHES

CDC Center for Preparedness and Response
Division of Emergency Operations

Cynthia Kennedy

Cynthia Kennedy, MET

CDC National Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial
Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce
Division of Workforce Development