Eric Mintz

Biography

Dr. Eric Mintz obtained his medical degree from the State University of New York in 1984, completed an internal medicine residency at Harlem Hospital in 1987, and received a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University in 1989.  That year he joined CDC, where he has worked on approaches to prevent waterborne and foodborne diseases in the Americas, Africa and Asia.  Dr. Mintz has authored or co-authored over 170 scientific publications on topics such as epidemic cholera, dysentery (bloody diarrhea), and typhoid fever, and on new technologies to make safe drinking water, safe sanitation and better hygiene, more accessible, affordable, and sustainable in developing countries.  He was one of the first CDC staff to respond to the earthquake in Haiti, and also participated in many responses to epidemic cholera, and the Ebola Response in Guinea.