Dr. Adam L. Cohen is the chief of the bacterial Respiratory Diseases Branch at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At CDC, Dr. Cohen has worked in the areas of vaccines, child survival, surveillance, antimicrobial resistance, patient safety, global health security, and prevention of pneumonia, influenza, meningitis, and diarrhea in domestic and international settings. He has led and served on national and international committees with the World Health Organization and the United Nations and has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters. He has worked in more than 40 countries and lived and worked at CDC in South Africa and at WHO headquarters in Switzerland. Dr. Cohen started his CDC career as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer. Dr. Cohen is a pediatrician and received his medical degree from West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia, and completed his residency in pediatrics, fellowship in general academic pediatrics and Master of Public Health degree at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He is board certified in pediatrics, is a Captain in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service and holds an academic appointment at Emory University.