Dr. Foti is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She holds an MPH in chronic disease epidemiology from the Yale School of Public Health and a PhD in cardiovascular disease epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she also completed a post-doctoral fellowship. Her research focuses on monitoring and improving the prevention and control of hypertension and elimination of disparities domestically and globally. Dr. Foti also previously worked for 8 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including 5 years as a Special Assistant to the CDC Director, where she helped launch the Million Hearts initiative.
