Tyler Sharp, PhD

Commander Tyler M. Sharp, Ph.D., is an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and currently serves as CDC's liaison to the US Department of Defense and Coast Guard.

A native of Bowling Green, Ohio, he attended secondary school in the Chicago area and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. He received additional training at Montana State University – Bozeman and the Medical Research Council Division of Virology in Glasgow, Scotland. He completed his doctorate in Molecular Virology and Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, in the laboratory of Dr. Mary K. Estes where he studied the molecular mechanisms of norovirus pathogenesis. During his graduate study, he received additional training at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases in Tokyo, Japan. He joined CDC in 2010 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer stationed at CDC Dengue Branch in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where his public health and research interests included the epidemiology and pathophysiology of emerging infectious diseases, including dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and leptospirosis.

In 2020 he was detailed to the White House Medical Unit to serve as the Chief of Medical Epidemiology. In early 2024 he was appointed as CDC's liaison to the US Department of Defense and Coast Guard, where he is responsible for advocating for CDC interests to US military health partners and provide on-site representation to DoD partners.

CDR Sharp is currently based in Washington, DC, and enjoys international travel, hiking and camping, and SCUBAdiving.