Lead, Antimicrobial Resistance Team
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Maroya Spalding Walters, PhD, ScM is an Epidemiologist and Leads the Antimicrobial Resistance Team in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). Dr. Walters completed a B.A. in Chemistry at Carleton College, and a Master of Science in Epidemiology and Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, both from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the CDC in 2011 and continued at CDC as a staff epidemiologist. Dr. Walters joined the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion in 2014. She and her team work to prevent the spread of antibiotic resistant threats through prevention initiatives and public health response activities.