Education

BA Stanford University, 2007
BS Stanford University, 2007
MPH Eastern Virginia Medical School, 2010
MD Eastern Virginia Medical School, 2013

Contact

206-296-4774
erchow@kingcounty.gov

Bio

Eric J. Chow, MD, MS, MPH, FIDSA, FACP, FAAP is the Chief of Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Immunization for Public Health – Seattle & King County and is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington. He is a board-certified physician in internal medicine, pediatrics and infectious diseases and also trained as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in the Influenza Division at CDC. As an EIS officer, he supported the investigation of the first known COVID-19 outbreak in the US and helped characterize the initial cases and develop the case definition of the multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). On July 2026, he was appointed to the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases (COID) for a 6-year term. He has authored over 70 publications in peer reviewed journals and in the MMWR. His academic interests include community respiratory virus epidemiology, extra-pulmonary manifestations of respiratory viruses, vaccine preventable disease, emerging infectious diseases and applied epidemiology. Dr. Chow received Bachelor degrees in International Relations and Biological Sciences from Stanford University in 2007, a Masters in Biological Sciences from Stanford University in 2008, a Masters in Public Health from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 2010 and a MD from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 2013.