Alicia Fry, MD, MPH, is the Director for the Center for Vaccine Excellence (CVE), which encompasses all of The Task Force for Global Health’s vaccine-related work.  In this role she oversees efforts related to reducing vaccine-preventable illness by expanding vaccine availability and use, knowledge, and safety. This includes increasing access to vaccines for influenza and other respiratory viruses in developing countries and preparing them for the next pandemic. She also guides The Task Force’s work to help eradicate polio, eliminate viral hepatitis, improve efforts to monitor vaccine safety, and reduce vaccine hesitancy.

Prior to joining The Task Force, Dr. Fry served the Fulton County Board of Health as the Director of Clinical Operations and Health Services and oversaw services aimed at reducing illness due to vaccine-preventable diseases, Hepatitis, HIV and sexually transmitted illnesses.

Prior to that, Dr, Fry had an accomplished 23-year career at CDC working on vaccines for respiratory viruses and bacteria, TB elimination, foodborne illnesses, and surveillance and public health research on RSV, influenza, Sars-CoV-2, and other respiratory viruses.  She spent 16 years in the CDC’s Influenza Division, leading the Epidemiology and Prevention Branch of that Division for 5 years.  The branch was responsible for surveillance for seasonal and novel influenza viruses, vaccine and antiviral policies, disease burden and vaccine effect estimates, forecasting and modeling seasonal and pandemic trends and effects of interventions, detection and control of non-seasonal viruses, pandemic preparedness nationally and globally, and providing technical expertise to national and international public health partners. She was integral in CDC responses to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic and the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Dr. Fry started her public health career at CDC in 1999 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in the Division of Bacterial Diseases working on respiratory bacteria and their vaccines.  

Dr. Fry  received her MD from the University of Cincinnati, and  MPH from UC Berkeley.  She completed internal medicine residency training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and an Infectious Diseases fellowship at UCSF.