Medical Officer
CDC
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Alfonso C Hernandez-Romieu MD MPH is a medical epidemiologist and joined the CDC in 2020 as an Epidemic Intelligence Officer with the Epidemiology, Research, and Innovations Branch of the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. Dr. Hernandez-Romieu led outbreak investigations of Candida auris in nursing homes and Mycobacterium tuberculosis among recipients of a contaminated bone allograft product, provided technical infection prevention and control support to state and local health departments for COVID-19 and healthcare-associated infections, and described the epidemiology and clinical
characteristics of post-COVID conditions. From 2022 to 2023, Dr. Hernandez-Romieu worked in the Dengue Branch in San Juan Puerto Rico. During his time in the Dengue Branch, Dr. Hernandez-Romieu played a critical role in modernizing dengue surveillance in the Americas region, improving data timeliness, transparency, and utility to guide outbreak response efforts in multiple countries. In addition, he successfully led a center-level priority project to implement and evaluate a promising vector control strategy using Wolbachia to reduce dengue burden. Prior to joining CDC Dr. Hernandez-Romieu completed his Infectious Diseases fellowship (2020) and Internal Medicine Residency (2018) at Emory University. He received his Doctor of Medicine from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (2011) and a Master of Public Health from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University (2013). Dr. Hernandez-Romieu is currently a Medical Officer in the Outbreak and Community Response Team in the Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Virus Division in the NCIRD, where he leads community-based studies of respiratory viruses to guide policy and program implementation and assists with preparedness and outbreak response to respiratory viral pathogens.