[1] While earning her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she accepted a position within the United States respiratory diseases branch within the CDC.

[3] Following graduation, Link-Gelles received an award from Delta Omega, Theta Chapter[4] and joined the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service.

In 2016, she travelled with a team of researchers to the U.S. territory of American Samoa to ensure babies born to Zika-infected mothers were tested for birth defects.

[5] She later presented a study at the 2017 EIS Conference demonstrating that two-thirds of pregnant women with high viral loads of Hepatitis B go untreated.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Link-Gelles published a study in the journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report which analyzed the reopening of childcare centers in Rhode Island.