Dr. Julie Louise Gerberding is President and CEO of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), a non-profit organization that builds public-private-patient partnerships supporting the mission of the NIH. She co-chairs the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance on Global Health Security and is a globally recognized expert in infectious diseases, whose career spans multiple sectors, including senior leadership roles in academia as a tenured faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2002-2009 and previously served as President, Merck Vaccines and as Executive Vice President and Chief Patient Officer at Merck & Co., Inc. Her board service includes McKesson, Mayo Clinic, Case Western Reserve University, Research!America, the National Health Council, and several biotech companies. Dr. Gerberding is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and holds adjunct faculty positions at UCSF and Case Western Reserve University.