Professional Profile
Ms. Grégoire is an Analyst at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and a Research Associate at the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her primary research interests include global health security, public health planning for mass gatherings, misleading rumors and trust in public health, and public health emergency preparedness and response.
Ms. Grégoire’s current projects at the Center focus on preparedness efforts for mass gatherings; building trust and addressing misleading health rumors in the US; analyzing and countering hybrid chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats; establishing standards for what, when, and how to report information about an outbreak to the public; improving regional public health emergency preparedness and response; developing a coordinated UN strategy for a deliberate event response; exploring the challenges faced by hospital systems serving health disparity populations during the pandemic and strategies to overcome them; and evaluating and strengthening cyberbiosecurity capacity in high containment laboratories.
Her past efforts include developing the Tackling Rumors and Understanding & Strengthening Trust (TRUST) in Public Health website; creating a practical playbook for addressing misleading rumors in the US; establishing the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation; and analyzing safety protocols for mitigating disease spread at the Olympic Games.
Before joining the Center, Ms. Grégoire was a professional athlete. She competed in France’s Division 1 Féminine as a member of the ASJ Soyaux-Charente professional football team. Ms. Grégoire also participated in a year-long internship program at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), where she contributed to numerous orthopedic clinical research studies addressing scoliosis, kyphosis, fractures, and growth plate injuries. She was the supervisor for the Center for Achievement of Teens and Children with Hand Differences during her time at CHLA.
Ms. Grégoire received her MSc in global health policy from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London. Her thesis focused on global health policies addressing climate misinformation and disinformation on social media. She received a BA in anthropology and a certificate in global health and health policy from Princeton University. Her senior thesis consisted of ethnographic fieldwork at the Hyacinth AIDS Foundation and focused on exploring structural violence through storytelling.
