Dr. Lesley McGee is the acting team lead for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Streptococcus Laboratory, which includes surveillance, research, and public health response to Streptococcus pneumoniae, and groups A and B streptococcus. Dr. McGee joined CDC in 2008 as a senior Microbiologist. She has worked extensively in streptococcal disease surveillance, focusing on pathogen detection, antimicrobial resistance, molecular epidemiology and evolution and genomics. Prior to this position, Dr. McGee served on the faculty of Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health as a Research Assistant Professor. In this role, she led research activities within the Hubert Department of Global Health and taught graduate students in the Master of Public Health program. Dr. McGee earned her Bachelor and Honors degrees in Microbiology and Biochemistry at the University of Natal and completed her PhD in Medical Microbiology at the Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit of the University of the Witwatersrand, the National Health Laboratory Service, and the Medical Research Council in Johannesburg, South Africa.