Blanche Greene-Cramer

Team Lead, Alert and Verification

Biography

Dr. Blanche Greene-Cramer is the acting Team Lead for Alert & Verification, Public Health Intelligence (acute events) Unit in the Emergencies Program at the World Health Organization HQ in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to joining WHO in 2019, Dr. Greene-Cramer was an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and Emergency Public Health Epidemiologist with the Emergency Response and Recovery Branch in the Division of Global Health Protection at the US CDC. There her work focused on strengthening research in complex humanitarian and emergency settings including evaluating maternal and perinatal deaths documentation and assessing the burden of noncommunicable diseases and mental illness and barriers to care among conflict affected populations.