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Rachel Herlihy, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

State Epidemiologist
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Denver, CO, United States

Rachel Herlihy, MD, MPH, is the State Epidemiologist and Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Dr. Herlihy directs medical and epidemiologic activities for the Department including communicable disease reporting, surveillance, and investigation efforts. She led Colorado’s epidemiologic response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Herlihy represents the Department in a variety of settings including legislative and executive hearings, as a lead media spokesperson, and with various technical and lay audiences. She has been with the Department since 2011 and has been Colorado’s State Epidemiologist since 2017. 

Rachel earned her MD and BS degrees in Bacteriology, and Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Wisconsin. She completed an internal medicine internship at the University of Virginia and a preventive medicine residency at Johns Hopkins University including an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Previously, Rachel was the Deputy State Epidemiologist for Utah, and the Deputy Director for the
Department of Defense’s Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Program in Bethesda, Maryland.

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

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