Staff Bio
Laura Porter, Ph.D.
Global Health Center (GHC)
Laura Porter, Ph.D., serves as the Associate Director for Data Integration and Analysis in CDC's Division of Global HIV & TB.
CDC role
Laura Porter, Ph.D., serves as the Associate Director for Data Integration and Analysis in CDC's Division of Global HIV & TB.
Previous experience
Dr. Porter has 20 years of experience in domestic and global public health, with technical leadership in monitoring and evaluation, surveillance, and survey design and analysis. She began working at CDC's Global AIDS Program in 2004 as an epidemiologist on the surveillance team. She served as lead of the Monitoring and Evaluation team from 2007 to 2010, and chief of the Epidemiology and Strategic Information Branch from 2010 to 2016.
Education
Dr. Porter earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988, with a major in Behavioral Biology, from the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University and holds a Ph.D. from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University with concentrations in demography and epidemiology.