Dr. Ali Harrist is the Wyoming State Epidemiologist and Acting Wyoming State Health Officer at the Wyoming Department of Health. Previously, Dr. Harrist was an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, assigned to the Wyoming Department of Health. She subsequently was employed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, serving as a Medical Officer in the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination.
Dr. Harrist is a 2013 graduate of the Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics and is a boardācertified pediatrician. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Her degrees include a BS from Yale University, MD from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.