Victoria Seffren

Victoria (“Tory”) Seffren, MPH, is an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Malaria Branch. Her research interests include vector-borne diseases, population-level disease surveillance, and the intersection of place, environment, and health.

 

At the CDC, Tory manages the national malaria surveillance system and supports case and outbreak investigations conducted by state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments. She has contributed to the implementation and management of global malaria research studies, as well as large-scale facility- and community-based surveillance networks. Prior to joining NCEZID, she supported the CDC’s Global Health Center global HIV program, where she implemented bio-behavioral and population-based surveys and evaluated HIV prevention and control strategies. She also worked with the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, contributing to the development and maintenance of novel case and mortality surveillance systems during the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Tory holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan and is currently pursuing a PhD in Public Health–Epidemiology at Georgia State University’s School of Public Health under the mentorship of Dr. Alexander Kirpich. During her doctoral studies, she is developing expertise in longitudinal data analysis and spatial statistics, with the goal of investigating infectious disease dynamics through an ecological lens.