Seth Berkley

Berkley worked for the Rockefeller Foundation, initially as a program scientist and finally as deputy director of the health sciences.

From 1984 to 1986 Berkley worked as a medical epidemiologist for the Center for Infectious Diseases of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. During his work for the CDC, Berkley was involved in the administration of the national surveillance system for toxic shock syndrome. He also led an examination of an outbreak by the Brazilian purple lover, an illness that killed children in Brazil, and helped discover the pathogen.

In 1986, Berkley worked as an epidemiologist for the Health Ministry of Massachusetts on behalf of the CDC and was involved in routine monitoring and outbreak examinations.