 dr natasha bagdasarian is the chief medical executive for the state of michigan and a cabinet member of the governor since 2021 she holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the university of michigan school of public health she has numerous publications on topics in infectious diseases and public health including guidance on infection prevention and control of the sars cov 2 virus dr bagdasarian completed medical school at wayne state university internal medicine residency and infectious diseases fellowship at the university of michigan and she received her mph in hospital and molecular epidemiology from the university of michigan school of public health she is board certified by the american board of internal medicine in both internal medicine and infectious diseases and has been elected as a fellow of the infectious diseases society of america from 2015 2020 she served as the hospital epidemiologist at national university health system in singapore she has consulted for the world health organization who in geneva providing technical guidance on outbreak preparedness and covid 19 and for the american society of microbiology advising on antimicrobial stewardship in dhaka bangladesh 