Lieutenant, United States Public Health Service; Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Lt. Tia McGill Rogers is an exemplary commissioned officer in the United States Public Health Service. She serves her country as an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). After completing her Ph.D. in public health at Georgia State University, she pursued three years of postdoctoral training in the departments of Global Health and Population and Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as a Yerby Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
Throughout her CDC career, Rogers has worked with global partners and other centers across CDC to help countries around the world address violence exposure through the Violence Against Children Surveys (VACS). Now in NCIPC’s Surveillance Branch, she is the lead science officer for the School Associated Violent Death Surveillance System and lead subject matter expert for the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline. Rogers also contributes to CDC’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) responses across the nation and world, including working with the Ministry of Health in Zambia on a poliovirus outbreak in country and working more than 451 hours leading deployment teams to assist state, local and tribal health departments with their response to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).