Dr J. Erin Staples

Dr Erin Staples is a medical epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Arboviral Diseases Branch located in Fort Collins, Colorado. She oversees the surveillance of domestic arboviral diseases, provides guidance for clinical care, testing, and prevention of arboviral diseases, develops arboviral vaccine recommendations, and conducts epidemiologic evaluations and research. Her past work experiences include lead of CDC’s Arboviral Diagnostic and Reference Laboratory, bacterial zoonotic diseases work at CDC, vaccine development in industry, and clinical work in pediatric infectious diseases. Dr. Staples has both a medical degree and a doctoral degree in microbiology and immunology and has published on a variety of scientific subjects.