Lindsey B.C. Estetter
The Power List 2021 – Behind the Scenes
As a microbiologist contractor at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Synergy America, Inc., Lindsey has been immersed in US public health during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. She says the most unexpected moment of her career was during her application to the APHL’s EID Fellowship during the chikungunya outbreak. “One of the interview questions was about which virus I was most interested in. I responded with chikungunya [...] The unexpected part came about three months into the fellowship when I had the opportunity to help develop a new molecular assay to detect chikungunya virus in human tissues.”
