Andrea Benin, MD is Chief, Surveillance Branch, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases. In this position, Dr. Benin has a leadership role for the National Healthcare Safety Network, the nation’s largest, most widely used online surveillance system for tracking healthcare-associated infections, conditions, and patient-safety events as well as antimicrobial use and resistance.

Dr. Benin is a pediatrician with background and training in informatics, public health, epidemiology, and infectious diseases. Dr. Benin is also an expert in quality and safety in healthcare and in developing, validating, and measuring metrics of quality of care. In her prior positions, Dr. Benin held senior leadership roles driving patient-safety and quality in healthcare (2006-2012: System Executive Director, Performance Management for the Yale New Haven Health System and Quality and Safety & Officer, Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital, New Haven; 2012-2018: Senior Vice-President, Quality and Patient-Safety, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Hartford). 

Dr. Benin’s early-career positions at CDC –  as an Officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service in the Respiratory Diseases Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases and subsequently as a Medical Officer at the National Immunization Program –  began her journey using electronic data to drive public health as well as the safest, highest quality healthcare.

Dr. Benin received her A.B. from Dartmouth College and her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. In addition to training in Pediatrics (Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) and in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program (Yale University School of Medicine), Dr. Benin completed fellowships and board certification in Pediatric Infectious Diseases (Yale University School of Medicine) and Medical Informatics (Yale University School of Medicine). Dr. Benin is on the informatics faculty at the Yale School of Public Health.