David M. Berendes

Dr. David Berendes is an interdisciplinary epidemiologist on the Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Team of the Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch at CDC. He also serves as the hand hygiene subject matter expert for both domestic and global settings. He conducts applied research and monitoring and evaluation focusing on sanitation and hygiene-associated exposures and their impact on health, as well as the increasing role of the environment in transmitting antibiotic resistant organisms. He has a BS in Cell and Molecular Biology from Duke University and an MSPH in Global Epidemiology and a PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from Emory University. He previously spent 6 weeks as the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Team lead within the Community Interventions and At Risk Task Force within CDC’s COVID-19 response and currently backstops the International Task Force on water, sanitation, and hygiene-related issues in low and middle income countries.