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State Epidemiologist, Louisiana Department of Health
Theresa Sokol has worked for the Louisiana Department of Health for more than 20 years. She currently serves as the State Epidemiologist and Program Director for the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section of the Louisiana Office of Public Health. In this capacity, she provides expert epidemiologic, scientific, and technical leadership for the critical public health systems and processes that detect and control infectious diseases, hazardous environmental exposures, bioterrorism threats, and other public health emergencies. Theresa oversees surveillance for more than 80 infectious diseases, including food and water-borne diseases, vector-borne diseases, viral respiratory illnesses, health care associated infections, and vaccine preventable diseases. She has directed Louisiana’s investigation of numerous large outbreaks, including hepatitis A, histoplasmosis, mumps, COVID-19, mpox, West Nile, pertussis, and cyclosporiasis. She also led the state’s epidemiologic response to high-consequence infectious diseases such as Zika, Welder’s Anthrax, Ebola, avian influenza, and measles.
