Dr. Kristina Obom is Associate Program Chair for the Master of Science in Bioinformatics program, Johns Hopkins Advanced Academic Program. Dr. Obom is also the program coordinator for the new MS. in Bioinformatics. She is an alumna of Hopkins, receiving her undergraduate degree from the School of Arts and Sciences in Public Health. Her training in public health continued at Yale University where she received a Masters in Public Health in Infectious Disease Epidemiology. Dr. Obom received her PhD from the City University of New York at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in Biomedical Science, where she studied pox viruses. She has an interest in bioinformatics and taught bioinformatics and introductory biology in the Biology Department of the Catholic University of America. Dr. Obom currently teaches Virology and Emerging Infectious Diseases.