Emily Khan - Epidemiology and Community Health

One of the things alumnus Emily Kahn liked best about the SPH was the ability for her to change her focus of study as she became exposed to new areas of public health. “I started in behavioral epidemiology, shifted emphasis to biological cardiovascular epidemiology and ended in maternal and child health epidemiology.”

Dr. Kahn’s strong foundation in epidemiology landed her a coveted two-year CDC fellowship in the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) where she was assigned to the Texas Department of Health. There, she say,s she “did everything from investigating a salmonella outbreak at a convention, to analyzing data from the poison centers to try to estimate the prevalence of inhalant use among young teenagers.”

Following her EIS assignment, Dr. Kahn remained with the CDC and moved to Atlanta where she currently directs the Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Section at the Georgia Division of Public Health, an assignment from the CDC’s division of Reproductive Health.