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Jasmine Chaitram, MPH

Acting Principal Deputy Director Office of Laboratory Systems and Response
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA, United States

Mrs. Jasmine Chaitram-Lawson has more than 19 years of experience in developing and managing laboratory preparedness and response programs. In 1998, Jasmine began her CDC career by administering an international quality assurance program for 300 laboratories in 35 countries to detect emerging pathogens with resistance to antimicrobial drugs. Within the same division, she moved on to develop reference antimicrobial susceptibility test methods for public health laboratories. Her experience working with biological threat organisms in a Biosafety Level 3 laboratory led to a position with the Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections with the Laboratory Response Network for Biological Threats (LRN-B) in 2003. In this role, she developed a robust proficiency testing program, a model for estimating laboratory surge capacity and a system for standardized electronic data messaging for public health laboratories.
In 2016, Jasmine joined the Division of Laboratory Systems as the Associate Director for Laboratory Preparedness and later became the Chief of the Laboratory Readiness and Informatics Branch. She has led the Division’s COVID-19 and Monkeypox response efforts serving as a liaison between CDC and the clinical laboratory community. Jasmine has also successfully established and formalized public private partnerships to improve coordination of diagnostic testing during public health emergencies. As of January 2024, Jasmine is now also serving as the Acting Principal Deputy Director for the Office for Laboratory Systems and Response (Proposed). She provides strategic oversight for the LRN-B which has recently transitioned into the new Center. Jasmine is also responsible for all preparedness and response activities of the Center.
Jasmine chairs several federal interagency and laboratory partnership workgroups and has created plans and strategies to improve and sustain national laboratory response testing capacity. Ms. Chaitram received her Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Biology, B.S. in Medical Technology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University.

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