Florida Department of Health
Bureau of Epidemiology
4052 Bald Cypress Way
Bin A-12
Tallahassee,
FL
USA
32399
Richard_Hopkins@doh.state.fl.us
Biographical Sketch:
Richard Hopkins started with the Florida Department of Health in 1990, where he was State Epidemiologist from 1991 to 2001. He was with the Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics at CDC from 2003 to 2004, and is currently Florida’s Acting State Epidemiologist. Previously, he worked as a medical epidemiologist for state health departments in Montana, Colorado (where he was State Epidemiologist from 1979 to 1985), West Virginia, and Ohio. He has worked on as an epidemiologist on infectious diseases, cancer, injuries, birth outcomes, emergency response and other health problems, with over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Hopkins is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has an MSPH degree from the University of Colorado, and is a graduate of CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists from 1982 to 1985 and again from 1997 to 2001. Currently he serves as an advisor to CSTE and CDC on surveillance and informatics in several capacities. He supervises activities at the Florida Department of Health in the areas of surveillance, surveillance system development, outbreak investigation, and healthcare-associated infection prevention.