Anna Yaffee, MD, MPH, is an emergency medicine physician with an interest in emergency response and capacity building in differently resourced settings. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School and School of Public Health, and completed her emergency medicine residency at Emory University. She went on to serve for two years as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is currently on faculty at Emory University and Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, and serves as Director of the Global Health in Emergency Medicine Section, and Team Lead for the Grady FOCUS HIV testing program.
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Anna Q. Yaffee, MD
Specialties
- Emergency Medicine
Board Certifications
- American Board of Emergency Medicine
Affiliations
- Emory
Education & Training
- Medical School: University of Michigan School of Medicine
- Residency: Emory University School of Medicine
Honors & Awards
CDC & ATSDR Honor Award - Excellence in Emergency Response- International (Yellow Fever Outbreak Response Team), 2017
CDC NCEZID Honor Award for outstanding performance in responding to the 2016 yellow fever outbreaks in Angola and the Democratic Republic
Publications
Yaffee AQ, Scott B, Kaelin C, Cambron J, Sanderson W, Christian WJ, Moran TP, Chamness J. 2019. Collaborative response to arsenic-contaminated soil in an Appalachian Kentucky neighborhood. J Toxicol Env Heal A. Epub.
Yaffee AQ, Isakov A, Wu HM. 2019. How