Julie Louise Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H. , an infectious disease expert, is the current director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry , having assumed the positions on July 3, 2002.

Dr. Gerberding has been leading CDC's efforts to prepare for and counter terrorism. Dr. Gerberding is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Emory University and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco .