Kristin Sullivan

Kristin Sullivan, PhD, is an Adjunct Professor at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She serves as a Public Health Advisor for Children Without Worms (CWW), a program of the Task Force for Global Health, supporting country partners in neglected tropical disease research and prevention. She previously worked in communicable disease surveillance for the states of Massachusetts and North Carolina.

Her expertise spans outbreak response, disease surveillance, and clinical/observational research on neglected tropical diseases like intestinal worms. Sullivan holds a BS in Biochemistry from North Carolina State University, an MPH from Boston University, and a PhD in Epidemiology from UNC-Chapel Hill.

Her research focuses on global health equity, with an emphasis on strengthening public health systems to combat vaccine-preventable diseases and improve surveillance capacities in low-resource settings.