Céline Gounder is an internist, infectious disease specialist, and epidemiologist. She is a CBS News medical contributor and senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at the Kaiser Family Foundation and is best known for coverage of the COVID, Ebola, Zika, opioid overdose, gun violence, and disinformation epidemics.

Dr. Gounder is also clinical associate professor of medicine and infectious diseases at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine. An expert in science, medicine, and public health communication, she advises policymakers on public health issues, including epidemics and pandemics, the health impacts of climate change, mental health, drug overdose, and disinformation.

She has served as assistant commissioner of health for tuberculosis at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Among other honors, in 2023 Dr. Gounder was named one of New York City and State’s Health Care Power 100, a New York State Woman of Distinction, and a National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine; she was also elected to the National Academy of Medicine, received the Research!America Meeting the Moment for Public Health Award, and joined the Council on Foreign Relations.

Dr. Gounder and her podcast production team won the 2023 Edward R. Murrow Award for American Diagnosis S4E5: “Power to Police Perpetrators.”

She received her BA in molecular biology from Princeton University, her Master of Science in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her MD from the University of Washington.

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