About Alden
Alden is a graduate of UH’s MPH program in Environmental Health and CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service. He returned to Hawai‘i in 2023 after a 30-year career at the CDC. In the first 15 years, he was involved with responses to outbreaks of toxic hepatitis in North Dakota and Rift Valley Fever in Kenya, with arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh, polio eradication in Nigeria, landmine injuries and deaths in Afghanistan, and population estimates of Louisiana Parishes after Hurricane Katrina. In the past 15 years, he was posted in Thailand to support CDC’s Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETPs) and started FETPs in Cambodia, Laos, Madagascar, Myanmar, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Thailand, Ukraine, and Vietnam. He provided guidance on career paths and workforce development, and enhanced epidemiology programs through peer-to-peer learning, mentorship and apprenticeship. He published 80 articles on disease outbreaks, disaster responses, and workforce. Alden has a part-time position in the Hawai‘i Department of Health as an Epidemiologist with Disease Outbreak and Control Division.
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