Kathleen Holmes is a Senior Advisor for Pediatric Vaccine Strategy in the Immunization Services Division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She also coordinates Let’s RISE, which is the Division’s initiative to understand and address pandemic-related declines in routine vaccinations. Prior to joining the ISD, Ms. Holmes spent a decade working in various global health positions at CDC including country management and accountability efforts in the Division of Global HIV/AIDS, special assistance to the Director of CDC’s Center for Global Health, and malaria elimination effort on the Island of Hispaniola in the Division of Parasitic Disease and Malaria. She also served on the COVID-19 response for 18 months, where she helped support COVID-19 vaccine rollout strategy and vaccine confidence and demand partnership work. Ms. Holmes was a Presidential Management Fellow from 2009-2011.
Prior to her work at CDC, Ms. Holmes served as a rural community health Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin. She holds a Master of Public Health degree in global health from Emory University.