Fiona Havers — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as a practicing staff physician at the Atlanta VA Medical Center.
Formerly a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Led the Respiratory Virus Hospitalization Surveillance Network (RESP-NET) Team at CDC, overseeing COVID-19 and RSV platforms covering approximately 9% of the US population.
Served as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) Work Group lead for Pertussis Vaccines and was a senior author on the initial adult RSV vaccine ACIP policy recommendations published in 2023.
Earned a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Washington and a Master’s of Health Science in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and an adjunct associate professor in the Emory University Department.

Biography

Fiona Havers, MD, MHS, FIDSA, is an infectious diseases physician and medical epidemiologist. She previously served as a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where she was a senior subject matter expert on vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases and vaccine policy. At the CDC, Dr. Havers led the Respiratory Virus Hospitalization Surveillance Network (RESP-NET) Team within the Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Viruses Division.