Before joining the Fairbanks School of Public Health, Dr. Yeager was an Assistant Professor at Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, LA. She has a DrPH and MPH from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a Masters in Philosophy (MPhil) from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. Prior to completing her DrPH, Dr. Yeager was a Lister Hill Policy Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine.