David Wentworth
Bio
Dr. David Wentworth serves as Director of the Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Viruses Division (CORVD) in CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD). As Director, Dr. Wentworth provides programmatic leadership and oversees studies to protect people from respiratory viruses. He also serves as Chair of the WHO-Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Composition. Previously, Dr. Wentworth was the Chief of the Virology, Surveillance, and Diagnosis Branch in the Influenza Division (2014-2023). He was also Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Control of Influenza at the CDC (2019-2023).
Prior to joining CDC in 2014, Dr. Wentworth was Director of Viral Programs at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) from 2011 to 2014. From 2002 to 2011, Dr. Wentworth was the Director of the Influenza Virus and Coronavirus Pathogenesis laboratory at the Wadsworth Center, NYSDOH, and an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York-Albany.
He received a B.S. in Poultry Science, an M.S. in Veterinary Medicine, and a Ph.D. in Virology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (United States), where he specialized in the study of influenza viruses. He studied coronaviruses as a postdoctoral fellow, in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver (United States).
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