Keri M. Lubell is a behavioral scientist and team lead for Research and Evaluation in the Emergency Risk Communication Branch, Division of Emergency Operations, Office of Readiness and Response at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. She has been working in emergency risk communication response and research since 2008. She has responded to 50+ public health emergencies where she and her team conduct daily analysis of the “communication environment” to develop actionable inputs for agency communication strategy. Her current research focuses on understanding and finding ways to better meet the health protection information needs of populations who are disproportionately vulnerable to negative outcomes during public health emergencies (e.g., people with limited English proficiency and children with special healthcare needs), exploring ways to strengthen/rebuild trust in public health agencies at all levels of government in the wake of COVID-19, and developing measures to assess public health messaging efforts during emergencies. She earned her PhD in medical sociology from Indiana University. She spent ten years in suicide prevention as part of the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, which she joined in 1998.