Dr. David Fitter
Director, Division of Global Migration Health (DGMH), NCEZD
Captain David Fitter, MD, Director of DGMH at NCEZD, is a global health expert with extensive experience in emergency response, vaccine distribution, and disease outbreak control in crisis regions.
About Dr. David Fitter
Dr. Fitter previously served as the chief for the Immunization Systems Branch at the Center for Global Health. During the COVID-19 response, he served in several roles including as principal deputy incident manager and co-led the Vaccine Task Force, where he oversaw efforts to ready public health departments for the distribution, storage, and administration of vaccines.
That important work included the implementation of data-sharing systems that tracked vaccination campaigns down to the ZIP code level, helping get vaccine doses to people in remote areas.
Dr. Fitter joined CDC in 2011 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, working mainly in Haiti for the Emergency Response and Recovery Branch, serving later as medical officer and team lead.
From 2016–2019, he took on two lead roles in Haiti, as country director and as program director for the Division of Global Health Protection.
Dr. Fitter has deployed for CDC to emergencies in countries across Africa, including in the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak. When the Syrian civil war escalated in 2013, he deployed to neighboring Turkey to support an international polio vaccination campaign in northern Syria and efforts to control disease outbreaks common in crisis regions.