U.S. Public Health Service Medical Officer
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
CAPT Alice Y. Guh, MD, MPH is a U.S. Public Health Service Medical Officer in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. CAPT Guh joined CDC in 2007 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, where she was assigned to the Connecticut State Department of Public Health. She joined DHQP in 2009, where she provided technical expertise in investigations of healthcare-associated outbreaks and management of infection control breaches. In 2014, she assumed leadership of the Clostridioides difficile infection surveillance activity conducted through the CDC Emerging Infections Program, which covers a population of >12 million persons. In 2021, CAPT Guh became the lead of the C. difficile Infection and Multi-site Gram-negative Surveillance Initiative Team. In this capacity, she continues to lead special projects to advance C. difficile research while overseeing the surveillance activities of select gram-negative bacteria conducted through the CDC Emerging Infections Program.