Biography

Adam Crawley received his bachelor’s degree in Political Science & Government from the University of Rhode Island in 2007 and later completed his Master of Public Health degree, with a concentration in Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, at UC Berkeley in 2011. Adam’s graduate studies focused on issues of public health preparedness and infectious disease surveillance. 

Prior to his MPH degree, Adam worked for the Rhode Island Department of Health’s Center for Emergency Preparedness & Response as a pandemic influenza planner and took part in the agency’s initial response to 2009 H1N1. He then worked as a researcher at UC Berkeley’s Center for Infectious Diseases and Emergency Readiness from 2009 through 2012. He also spent time as an epidemiologist for the San Mateo Country Health System in northern California, before pivoting to global health work when he joined Ending Pandemics, a program of the Skoll Foundation focused on supporting low- and middle-income countries to build capacity for early warning disease surveillance. In early 2021, Adam joined US CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic and currently works in the Global Respiratory Viruses Branch on topics such as early outbreak detection, sentinel surveillance of respiratory viruses, burden of disease estimation, and genomic epidemiology. 

Adam has served as a supervisor and mentor to a number of interns, fellows, and students throughout his career and deeply values the roles that his own mentors have played in his career. With the growth of URI’s public health program, he was excited by the opportunity to play a small role in supporting students through mentorship, both sharing his experience and learning from students in the MPH program.