Dr. Burmaa Alexander serves as the head of the influenza surveillance division at The National Center for Communicable Diseases, Ministry of Health, Mongolia. The National Influenza Center has responsibilities for epidemiological, laboratory surveillance, and clinical management for all acute and chronic infectious diseases across Mongolia. Alexander has been at the NCCD since 2002 and started as an epidemiologist. A pediatrician by training, she is a graduate of Irkutsk Medical University.