Name
Bryon Backenson
Job Title
Director of the Bureau of Communicable Disease Control
Company
New York State Department of Health, Bureau of Communicable Disease
Speaker Bio
Bryon Backenson is currently the director of Bureau of Communicable Disease Control at NYSDOH. He has spent all of his career working on various aspects of infectious disease, including field ecology, pathology, and epidemiology. He is also a professor at the University at Albany School of Public Health, where he organizes and teaches the infectious disease epidemiology course every fall.