Dr. Stephen L. Cochi is the Senior Advisor to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Global Immunization Division (GID).

Stephen has spent 36 years at CDC working in the field of immunization, led activities for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), Global Measles and Rubella Initiative (M&RI), the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), and other priority immunization activities. He also served as Deputy Director of the US National Immunization Program in 2003, and Director from 2004-2005.

Prior to joining CDC, he was a paediatrician in the Indian Health Service on the Navajo Reservation in Gallup, New Mexico.