Leadership Team

Dr. Sievert is the Senior Science Advisor and Science Team Lead of the Antimicrobial Resistance Coordination and Strategy Unit in the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She leads strategic direction, coordination, and investments of CDC’s cross-cutting scientific antimicrobial resistance (AR) activities and her work ensures that AR projects and collaborations across the agency are appropriate and consistent with CDC scientific vision and priorities. As part of this role, Dr. Sievert provides the scientific leadership for CDC’s domestic AR Laboratory Network and Global AR Laboratory & Response Network.
Dr. Sievert has over 20 years of experience working on AR. In her 16+ years at CDC, she previously served as the Associate Director for AR in CDC’s Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases and as the Deputy Chief of Surveillance Branch in CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, where she provided scientific leadership for CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network. Prior to CDC, Dr. Sievert’s work experience includes AR program lead at a U.S. state health department, laboratory researcher and quality improvement/infection control coordinator at two major U.S. healthcare systems, and chief scientist for a consulting company focused on new models of electronic automation and health information exchange in medicine and public health.