Staff Bio
Suzanne Gilboa, PhD is the Acting Director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) at CDC.
Role at CDC
As acting director of NCBDDD, Dr. Gilboa leads a center that strives to advance the health and well-being of our nation's most vulnerable populations.
Previous experience
Dr. Gilboa also serves as the director of the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders in NCBDDD and has served as the Senior Scientist in the Infant Outcomes Monitoring, Research and Prevention Branch in the division since 2018. Before that, she was a staff scientist, and then team lead, in the (now) Birth Defects Monitoring and Research Branch.
Dr. Gilboa has focused her surveillance and research work on modifiable risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes including infectious diseases, substance use, chronic medical conditions, medication use, and environmental and occupational hazards and is passionate about leveraging scientific findings for public health action. She completed long-term leadership deployments in the 2016 Zika Virus Response and the COVID-19 response. Dr. Gilboa is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Nicaragua, 1997–1999).