SUE GERBER
Deputy Country Director, CDC-Namibia
SEEDR Cold Chain Co-Investigator

Sue Gerber has served a Public Health Advisor at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for over 20 years. She has worked in a number of areas including sexually transmitted diseases and tuberculosis where she was one of the first assignees to BOTUSA, CDC’s field station in Botswana from 1997-1998. She has worked with the Global Immunization Division since 1999 were she initially worked as a Technical Officer with the World Health Organization in East Africa, and covered Nigeria for the Division from 2005 to mid-2007 when she accepted the position of Team Lead for the AFRO region. She began her career in international health with the Peace Corps, where she was a volunteer in Liberia focusing on childhood immunizations and child survival activities. Since that time, Sue has worked extensively throughout Africa and Asia. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Epidemiology at Walden University.