Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, MD, MPH, FIDSA, is the Chief
Medical Executive for the State of Michigan, in which
she provides overall medical guidance for the State of
Michigan as a cabinet member of the Governor.
For the last year Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian served the
State of Michigan in the role of Senior Public Health
Physician with the Department of Health and Human
Services, where she oversaw the SARS-CoV-2 testing
strategy for the state and helped bring rapid testing
technologies to vulnerable populations. Since early
2020 she has served as a consultant for the World
Health Organization (WHO), providing technical
guidance on outbreak preparedness and COVID-19.
Dr. Bagdasarian completed medical school at Wayne
State University; internal medicine residency and
infectious diseases fellowship at the University of
Michigan; and she received a Master's in Public Health
degree in hospital and molecular epidemiology, from
the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She is
board certified by the American Board of Internal
Medicine in both Internal Medicine and Infectious
Diseases, and has been elected a Fellow of the
Infectious Diseases Society of America.
She has worked in Michigan and internationally for the
last decade and has 40 publications on topics in
infectious diseases and public health, including
guidance on infection prevention and control of the
SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19. She has held
teaching appointments at the University of Michigan,
Wayne State University, and the National University of
Singapore, and has won several teaching awards.