Dr. Gregory Raczniak is a medical epidemiologist and former Country Director for Pakistan with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A graduate of the Kalamazoo Area Mathematics and Science Center and Kalamazoo College, he pursued his MD/PhD jointly at Yale and Eastern Virginia Medical School. He has worked for the U.S. government for over a decade, first with the U.S. Navy before transferring to the U.S. Public Health Service in 2011. He has served the United States both domestically and abroad in various roles from leading skin and soft tissue infection outbreak investigations in remote Alaskan communities to setting up treatment units in Monrovia, Liberia for the Ebola outbreak. He sat down recently to discuss and share his unique expertise on integrating research, medicine, public health, and policy.