Melinda Moore

Biography

Melinda Moore is a public health physician and senior natural scientist at RAND. She is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Moore previously served with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 20 years and the Department of Health and Human Services' Office Global Health Affairs for 5 years. Her principal career focus has been global health; her expertise includes child health, infectious disease surveillance and control, immunizations/vaccination, environmental health, health security, and health diplomacy. At RAND, she has focused on infectious disease surveillance, public health preparedness, health security, military health, and environmental health. Public health preparedness projects she has led or participated in have assessed response to potential anthrax incidents; identified strategies for improving global influenza surveillance; implemented tabletop pandemic influenza preparedness exercises in the United States, Southeast Asia, and Middle East; assessed the U.S. health response to the H1N1 influenza pandemic; and supported development of the National Health Security Strategy. She has led or co-led military health projects related to medical intelligence, community disaster preparedness, the DoD Serum Repository, Army veterinarians in stability operations, and evaluation of humanitarian assistance efforts. She led RAND's contributions to a national environmental health strategy for the United Arab Emirates and is co-leading a project to improve primary health care in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Moore is board certified in pediatrics and preventive medicine, has worked in more than 45 countries, and speaks five languages. She is a retired Medical Officer (Captain, O6) of the U.S. Public Health Service.