Expert Panel on Emerging Infectious Diseases

The Expert Panel on Emerging Infectious Diseases conducts research to identify the single most important issue on the horizon in terms of policy for emerging and infectious diseases and offer recommendations to national level programs in hopes to combat the diseases before they harm a larger population.

Inaugural Year: 2007

Chair:
Jeannie P. Cimiotti, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor
Emory University

Vice Chair:
Kimberly Adams Tufts, ND, WHNP-BC, FAAN
Professor Emerita
School of Nursing
Old Dominion University

Board Liaison: Rebecca M. Patton

Staff Liaison: Madeleine Rohrbach

​Previous Chairs: Sharon Vanairsdale (2020-2022), Jeanne Pfeiffer (2019-2020), Jason Farley (2018-2019), Barbara Swanson (2017-2018), Donna Zucker (2015-2016), Chip Bailey (2015-2016), ​Rosanna DeMarco (2009-2014), Jerry D. Durham (2008), Felissa R. Lashley (2008) 

Recent Publications:

• Policy Brief: Expanding nursing’s role in responding to global pandemics (July-August 2018) 
• Policy Brief: An effective human papillomavirus vaccination policy will reduce infection- and malignancy-related morbidity and mortality (May-June 2018)
• Working with the Women's Health Expert Panel, Policy Brief: Engaging the voice of women in HIV prevention, care, and treatment​. Nursing Outlook 64 (January 2016) 103–105.
• Policy Brief: Hepatitis C testing in the birth cohort 1945-1965: Have you been tested?. Nursing Outlook 62 (September 2014) 371–373.
• Policy Brief: The mechanics of writing a policy brief. Nursing Outlook 62 (May 2014) 219–224.
• Policy Brief: Hepatitis C screening and testing: A call for a national response​. Nursing Outlook 60 (July 2012) 229-230.
• Policy Brief: Recommendations and reality: Perceived patient, provider, and policy barriers to implementing routine HIV screening and proposed solutions​. Nursing Outlook 60 (March 2012) 72-80.

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