I’ve been at CDC since May of 2000. I always felt my path to CDC was accidental, but over the years, I’ve come to realize, it’s perfect for me. I grew up in Ireland and was a bit of a sports nut…. big into Gaelic football, running, cycling, and swimming-I still love that stuff!
When I was a student at Queens University in Belfast, I never imagined that I would end up working for one of the world’s leading health organizations. My move to America started with a scholarship President Bill Clinton set up in 1996. It was after that year of study that I knew I wanted to immigrate to the United States.
I’m a Health Communications Specialist in the Digital Media Branch. Every day, I get to work on a variety of projects, including mobile apps, such as Solve the Outbreak and CDC’s Health IQ Skill. I also work on CDC’s Web Content Management System, which pushes content to the CDC website.
I learn from every project I work on and I work with a great team of people. I love my job! My dad was a smoker and I was surrounded by secondhand smoke before secondhand smoke became a big deal. Every year, I would send him smoking factsheets in the mail. In 2005, my dad quit. I’d like to say it was because of me, but he stopped after a life-threatening emergency. I’m proud he’s been tobacco free for 15 years; quitting smoking saved his life. I’m Sharon McAleer and I am CDC!
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No ones path to the CDC is accidental.
you are unelected federal leech living on my tax dollars and no one is interested in your bio and made up drama BS
latest drama series by CDC “I’m a so and so”