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Infectious Disease Specialist
About Dr. Ramon Morales
In 2014, Dr. Ramon Morales led the CDC’s on-the-ground response to the first U.S. Ebola case in Dallas, coordinating real-time PPE protocol revisions after observing gaps in hospital decontamination workflows that weren’t captured in national guidelines. He later co-developed the 'Outbreak Signal Index,' a publicly available algorithm that cross-references wastewater sequencing data, pharmacy sales of antipyretics, and anonymized telehealth symptom logs to flag emerging clusters 7, 10 days before traditional surveillance systems. His approach treats epidemiology as a layered narrative, not just transmission chains, but the human infrastructure failures and policy blind spots that let pathogens take root. Based in Atlanta but routinely embedded with rural health departments from Appalachia to the Rio Grande Valley, he insists public health isn’t about modeling perfection; it’s about designing interventions that survive power outages, staff shortages, and mistrust baked into decades of underfunding.
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- “How did your wastewater surveillance work change CDC outbreak thresholds?”
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